the hardest decision ever... well one of the hardest anyway

I remember last, last Chapel when Mr. Dyke was our speaker. Mr. Dyke is probably the most interesting man I've ever heard when he reads something he wrote. Really. There was one section in his piece that gave us a moment to pause and answer like 15 true/false questions in our heads. Obviously, because it was Mr. Dyke, they were pretty thought-provoking questions that I sometimes couldn't answer. Or at least, couldn't confidently answer.
One that I really remember was that "I'd rather give up the ability to hear music than the ability to taste food" or something like that. At first I said false, but then I wasn't sure. Music was certainly important to me, I mean I go crazy whenever I forget my iPod. As of now, my iPod is currently broken so I'm practically in a sort of "hell". I really love to eat food, however, my reasoning was that if I couldn't taste, I wouldn't be tempted to gorge on tons of delicious, unhealthy foods that really aren't good for my diet. I thought that I wasn't able to taste, I could just focus on eating healthy, bland foods that everyone has a hard time eating normally because they're just so... blah. BUT HEALTHY! Then I realized that my main motivation behind this was because of society's obsession with "thin". Yes, I realize that I am not exactly "thin" but I'm satisfied with the way I am. I love food so much that it's impossible for me to go on a diet or stay away from foods that I love, especially when we go to fancy resturants. However, if I'm not able to even enjoy the flavor of the foods, I might as well try the whole "thin" thing and eat only healthy, low, low, low calorie foods. And that's why I picked losing taste over the ability to hear. HOWEVER, then I got to thinking that my reasoning sucked. I didn't pick it for the right reasons. If I totally disregarded the consequences of eating too much, and how society feels at being fat, I would pick food over music. Pretty sure. I sound like such a pig right now, but I think it's true. Of course, now that I acknowledge I sound like such a fat lard, it sent off some doubt, causing me to think about changing my opinion just so I don't sound so gluttonous and obese. But though I love my iPod, I realized that many people are born deaf and they're perfectly fine. Not too many people lose the ability to taste, though so that's gotta mean something in some kind of selective disease/natural selection-ish way. So I was stuck. Do I lose tasting because it's probably better for me in the long run or do I lose hearing because that's my personal opinion. It was a battle between logical rationale and personal interest. And since the question was to be answered by yourself without anyone hearing, I decided I would say that I'd rather lose hearing than taste.
Good thing Mr. Dyke moved on to the next question, otherwise I'd be experiencing a continuing dispute (with myself) between caring whether I sound like a fat lard or doing what I'd actually prefer to do... or at least what I think I'd want to do.