It's so nice to be full of food; to be content, comfortable, and falling into a caloric coma. It's hunger that gives purpose to eating, and it's hunger that makes the first tasty bite so much better than the last could ever be. Everyone gets hungry, everyone eats. Not everyone gets full. It's easy to complain about food; about how it wasn't good enough because it didn't provide what was sought. No one complains about being hungry in the same way; it's not something that's determined by one's taste, it's just as inevitable as we all know it to be.
We're hungry for all sorts of things, and for some reason we often assume that all of the other hungers follow the same rules as the one dealing with eating. Well they don't. Every time mediocrity sneaks its way into what bothers us, there's a realization that we're not satisfied. What would change if instead of wondering why the food isn't filling, we wondered whether that particular hunger is worth satisfying? So much of what we're after is but a shadow of something greater; something at our core that gets at questions of purpose and meaning.
Maybe when we get what we don't want and don't get what we want to need, we've forgotten that we can choose our hunger. How wonderful to be starving for something every morning that can be found without limit and whose steady supply comes at no cost to us! That's the tasty stuff.
All this talk of food creates in me a need for pizza, and this is a hunger I'd like to chase down. Must go.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." Matthew 5:6
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"How wonderful to be starving for something every morning that can be found without limit and whose steady supply comes at no cost to us!"
You said it Teo. Wonderful indeed. But not easy. Not for me. Need more practise..
This is cheap hunger for students. And way better than a Pizza.
Good stuff Teo. Like it.