The Difference a Letter Makes

“Meditate or medicate?”
The Chemical Buddha often came in contact with Buddhists from other schools of thought. When he did they would insist he try meditation instead of medication. (For Buddhist, they were kind of pushy. But then, they’d also say he was destroying everything Buddha stood for, so they may have just been drama queens. Since they shaved their heads, it was hard to tell if they were men or women.) And, believe it or not, The Chemical Buddha actually tried meditating. But it just made his legs go to sleep. And he figured drugs did a much better job of making everything numb. Therefore, medication trumped meditation. (Besides, meditation was hard and boring.) The fact that there was just one letter difference between the two words was not lost on TCB either. He figured they must be closely related and therefore OK.
Where do you draw irrational ties to justify what you do?
How might you benefit from taking the more difficult path?