A tough decision for a sweet fanatic

Everyone knows that among the four basic tastes: sweetness, bitterness, sourness, saltiness, she appreciates sweetness the most.

For example, she would order something sweet for appetizer, main course, and dessert for a three-course meal sometimes.

At the cinema, before the show starts, instead of potato chips or cheese rings, she would much prefer to have chocolate bars or strawberry-flavored lollipops as snacks.

She also enjoys taking sweet fruits like dates, longan, papaya, lycee, watermelon, grapes, and etc in big portion as she believes natural sweetness like these can never be harmful even consumed excessively.

Therefore, everyone could easily understand too how completely devastated she is now, for being diagnosed with diabetes just recently.

She struggles, and tries really hard to get back to a life where she could still taste her favorite taste, hoping that she could just muddle along and it actually won't hurt as much as what the doctor says.

Strange signs start to surface one after another.

She notices no matter how much she eats, she keeps losing weight; no matter how much she drinks, her mouth is still very dry and she is always thirsty; no matter how often she urinates, she just has to do it again very soon, sometimes in less than 5 minutes; and no matter how carefully she has been taking care of the new cut on her right index finger, it just never seems to heal.

When her skin starts to develop some unknown itchiness and yeast infections, and her legs too begin to suffer from acute pain for no reasons, the doctor warns her once again to quit eating sweet, or she will risk amputations or even her life perhaps sooner than later.

Just like how babies have to give up their pacifiers in order to grow up at some point, she now has to give up her most favorite taste in order to live longer.

But the problem is, she doesn't know if she could still survive without her favorite taste.

You can always choose to live with something that you really adore, but at the same time making your life difficult.

On the other hand, you can also choose to stop living with it, and hence, stop all the painful sensations you are suffering too.

Its always a matter of choice, you just have to figure out which one weighs more to you.

A confused geographer

As a geographer, he really knows quite a bit about the Earth.

He knows the highest point on earth is the top of Mount Everest, which is 8,848 m above sea level, located in Himalayas on the border of Nepal and China.

He knows the lowest point on earth is the bottom of Dead Sea shore, which is 422 m below sea level, bordering Jordan and Israel.

He knows it could get as hot as 57.8°C, as recorded on 13 September 1922, in Al 'Aziziyah, Libya.

He knows it could get as cold as −89.2 °C, as recorded on 21 July 1983, in Vostok Research Station, which is located about 1,300 km from the Geographic South Pole.

He knows the longest distance possible on earth, or some may refer to it as 'circumference of earth', is 40,075.16 km at the equator, which is surprisingly NOT the distance from North Pole to South Pole as many people might assume it to be, as the earth is slightly wider than it is tall by approximately 67 km, which also resulted in it being known as an 'ellipsoid', or more precisely 'geoid'.

Having said that, no matter how well he knows about the planet, he just couldn't understand why he doesn't believe in all these facts anymore...since the day he met her.

He now believes, that the highest point on earth where one could possibly reach, is when he sees her smiling. 

He now believes, that the lowest point on earth where one could possibly reach, is when he sees her crying.

He now believes, that the hottest place on earth where one could still possibly be alive, is his face that goes blushed whenever she teases him.

He now believes, that the coldest place on earth where one could still possibly be alive, is his heart that turns icy-cold whenever she rejects him.

He now believes the longest distance possible on earth, is when she is so close to him, but yet, never seems to see how much his love for her is.

He no longer thinks he is qualified to be a geographer.

Confusion might happen in the beginning of a sweet romance, and it might eventually be clarified and you become certain.

Or it might happen when you meet the WRONG person, and it might never disappear and you remain confused indefinitely.