Everyday Systems

Especially since I (finally) got a chance to read this month's National Geographic and the article about how impoverished and war-torn Africa is. There were pics of children begging for food, and how people had to dig in the ground for roots of trees for firewood, since all of the trees had been cut down already. How people use rags wrapped around their feet for shoes.

And this was during a "woe is me, it's an N day and I'm feeling *stressed* and want to snack" moment. Suddenly, my hunger didn't matter anymore. The "hunger" I feel is NOTHING like the hunger so many other people, and innocent children are feeling.

I think I was being a whiney baby! It's all perspective. When I realized how miniscule my issue of being hungry was compared to many people world wide, well, it's just selfish and silly.

It was a very light bulb moment for me.

It makes it easier to not think about eating between meals, that's for sure!

Amen to that! Thanks for putting hunger in perspective. Honesty, what most Americans perceive as hunger pales in comparison to what the actual starving people from all over the world are facing on a daily basis.

Amen to that! Thanks for putting hunger in perspective. Honesty, what most Americans perceive as hunger pales in comparison to what the actual starving people from all over the world are facing on a daily basis.

Very true! We in Western society don't really know the meaning of the word hunger.

Thanks for this shamrockmommy! Next time I feel peckish I'll remember it!

I think we should also vow to never say "I'm hungry" or especially "I'm starving" as a show of respect for those people in the world who say the above and actually really mean it?

Thanks again for the lightbulb moment

for me being hungry was something that could not happen. so being hungry, not starving, is new for me and it is not so bad. it makes me look forward to my next meal. this is my first day i did snack out of habit and now i starting over tomorrow.

i give myself permission to be hungry. it is ok to be hungry.