I have a problem-- I am addicted to cookies. Yes, cookies. Snicker doodles, chocolate chip, gingerbread, macaroon, sugar, oatmeal raisin, animal crackers, and the list just goes on and on.
I know what you are probably thinking: “Andrew, how could this happen?” In all honesty, I think that we are all walking a dangerous line that divides enjoying cookies as a snack and relying on cookies for survival. Like everyone else, I would eat cookies whenever I wanted a small treat, and I even discovered that chocolate chip cookies were especially delicious and comforting while suffering a cold.
I was also tempted onto the path of cookie addiction because of poor choices for role models. Like most children, I watched a lot of "
Now that I am a cookie addict, I have to deal with the struggles of a cookie addict. If I am eating out with a friend, and they need to leave and ask me to watch their food, including a cookie, I might just steal that cookie. Then I'll act like a muscular ant stole the cookie instead, and I was unable to fight it off. In that instance, my addiction might gain me a cookie, but it'll cost me a friend, since I doubt my friend will believe my Mr. Olympia-ant story.
Like any other addiction, it will also make a tremendous impact on my wallet. I am already a broke college student, so I always have to be frugal with whatever money I make from work. But whenever lunchtime rolls around and I am grabbing a sandwich that I made from home, I cannot help but buy a oatmeal-raisin cookie to accompany my lunch. There goes my hard earned money, especially if I want to get a bottle of milk to go with my cookie.
So, is there any hope for me? Or will I risk my friends and future just for the high of baked dough and sugar? To be honest, I really do not know. I hope and pray that I will overcome my addiction, but I constantly crave cookies, and I do not know how to stop.
Why? Why must I suffer? All I want is just a small, simple treat to make a rough day of exams and essays just a little bit easier. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so, because now I am lost in a world of false, limited sweetness with very little hope of recovery.
If my struggle sounds familiar, then I fear you may have a loved one who is going through a cookie addiction, or even worse, you are going through that struggle. Maybe working together is the only way to beat this beast, because if we cannot support each other, then I believe that this cookie problem will devour us.