Marshmallow Metaphor

Have you ever put a marshmallow in the microwave? It splits open and erupts in a volcano of hot white sugary stuff and increases about five times its size. When you take it back out it is hard like taffy. Inedible.

I'm not sure exactly where I am going with this metaphor, but I think something like that has happened to me. I used to be this sweet white marshmallow of a guy. Then the world started pounding me with these microwave things and now I'm hard and ruined.

Nah. That is not so true really. Makes me sound like too much of a victim. If you opened up your cupboard and took down the bag of marshmallows and there was one of them in there yelling and screaming... practically taunting you to put him in the microwave... then that would be me.