The Flavour Trap

Metaphorical Narrative

The Maserati gleams dark blue. Not black, not silver, not white — but deliberate blue. The colour is not a detail, it is the flavour. Ego insists: freedom is real only if it arrives in this shade.

Yet the shepherd laughs. His goat is the walk. The walk needs no flavour.

Core Insight

Ego manipulates through the flavour trap. It whispers that life must carry a badge, a look, a packaging. Psychologically this is affective forecasting — the illusion that flavour determines future happiness.

But true freedom has no flavour. It is continuity itself.

Identity Shift Tie-In

To step outside the trap is to reclaim agency. Sovereign identity does not depend on colour, brand, or packaging. It depends on walking.

Saturday Experiment

For 24 hours, remove the flavour. Eat plain food, wear plain clothes, use the unbranded. Watch how the ego protests, then dissolves.

Sunday Reflection

• Which flavours did ego demand today?
• How did he feel when flavour was removed?
• What remained when experience stood flavourless?