I LOVE peaches but I hate how messy they get when they are super ripe. My solution? Buy a nectarine. It hints at the taste and sensation of a peach but without the messiness. Or, so I thought. Fast forward to me this week, sitting at my desk, dripping nectarine juice all over my keyboard. . .I should have just had a peach.

It made me question just how many times I should have just had the real thing and not settled for the stand-in or the substitute. 

Compromise is not always honouring oneself. Though it can be an opportunity to ‘get over yourself’; that goes both ways. Just buying the peach can be a simplified way to get what you want while mitigating the risk of it being too juicy to eat out of hand by not buying one complicates the entire process. 

My advice this week? Just buy the peach,