analogy

I was drinking soup this morning from a bowl and I was trying to decide whether to gulp the whole thing down or not so I kept tilting it up and down and I remembered about how back in the day (or even now) we used to play pranks on people that were drinking from a bottle from tilting it up and down. But the trick was always if you just closed your throat you wouldn't choke. and I was like wow it's like how some of our problems we just worry too much about them when we should be thinking about the solution or realize that there isn't much of a problem at all. Also, I was reminded of a scene in "Four Brothers" where someone tries to suffocate the other person with a plastic bag and the guy who is choking reaches to try to get the guys hand off his neck but if he just went to rip the plastic bag his problem would be solved.