When I hear the word "food", many things run in my mind depending on my mood, and whether or not I’m hungry. For instance right now, thinking of food makes me want to throw up, because it's late at night, and I ate dinner 2 hours ago, but 6 hours ago if I heard food, I’d be thinking about dinner, probably my topical and ideal meal, rice with gravy, grilled chicken, and salad with a glass of water, basically any home cooked meal. Food to me is a pretty huge subject because it affects every single living thing, because they all eat and understand what food is. My friend Paris has a dog named Rita who every time see's me she barks in happiness, because whenever I have a snack or something I spoil her, by giving her a bite so to her I play a role to her when it comes to food, same thing for my cats when I open a can of tuna. One question in particular I was stuck on earlier today in class was "is food sacred?" and while on the train I saw a man with a Whole Foods bag, I had an idea to how to respond. The answer to that question is "yes", but not entirely, because we live our lives based on food, the average person who eats everyday, won’t notice. The reason being is that people who eat regularly doesn’t notice because we spoil ourselves. In fact even something, as grocery shopping is a luxury people, because we have a huge variety of things we can buy.
But there is something wrong with not noticing how spoiled we are when it comes to food, even though I do it and whoever is reading this does this as well. Because we’re used to living like this, if something bad we're to happen like you or I suddenly became homeless, it'd be tough because you're whole food cycle is messed up, in fact you're whole cycle is messed up, because we all live our lives, in a constant routine.
Rigel,
ReplyDeleteLiked the contrast you built in between nausea and appetite depending on when you'd last eaten, in the first paragraph. Also really liked how the discussion of "spoiling" pets led to the idea of "spoiled" shoppers (though you could have done it more cleanly and elegantly).
Last paragraph seemed just stuck on and not so well thought out.