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Our love affair with foodFood can be a rather intresting subject to talk about and one I enjoy from time to time, for many varrious reasons, for one thing it is universal, who out there cannot relate to food in someway or another? Another sense the very begining of man it has played an imporant role beyound just out of its nesscitiy, it can carry cultural status, play a role in religous rites, and what I wish to speak of now, the way food can acutally be at the center of our life philosophies, and more interesting how two people who have the exact same philosophy can treat food in a totally different way.
People have always had intresting relationships with food, this sort of love hate relationship, food can be highly sexulized though it can also be the mark of complete innosence. The excesssive inguluence of it has been made a sin in the bible and yet so many cultures pride themselves upon thier food.
But so not to stray, the pariticular philosophy I wish to explore now, and its speical relationship with food, is the rather cliquie and common motto. "You only live once" which on the one hand in an undenibale truth, and yet on the other hand is not entierely true, and what I mean by that simply is, as a rencantonists, I beleive a person might have many possible lifetimes, yet, at the sametime, the life I am living right now, the person I am now, I will never be again.
So how does this relate to food? Well under this mantra we have two very distinct kinds of people, the first group are the health nuts, the ones who choose to deny themself that sepcial pleasure of food and shun away from any sort of indulgence or tresspass, the ones that make a diet of tofu and soy products, eat tasteless sugarless snaks, always have a bottle of water at thier side, have gym membership which they acutally use on a regular basis, shop only in the health food section, take an arrwry of herbal suppliments, and try every diet that comes around the corrner. They would never deam to open a bag of doritos, or eat ice cream directly out of the carton at ten o clock at night, and on now occasion dare to venture into the world of fastfood. They deprave themselves in the name of you only live once, because it is thier goal to then insure they do live for as long as they phyiscaly and possibly can.
On the other side, you have those that fall more in line with my train of thought, taking that very same mantra, I see this as an invitation. I love food, of course I am a quarter Itallian and Itallians love to eat, I savor food, and find it offers a very sepcial kind of bliss it awaknes the senses and appeals to at least 4 of the five, the lingering delecious smells, the tantilizing sight, the surpreme taste, and the feel and texture of it. Becasue you do only live onces, I should not deny myself this special pleasure, but I will indulge and enjoy. Maybe I eat more then I should at times, and maybe I eat things that I shouldn't but I think when it comes done to it, the experince of it is worth it.
And I cannot help but to wonder, when our health food friends, by chance suceed in thier quest, and happen to live up into thier late 90s or perhaps 100s, while they are most likely in some home somewhere or being taken care of by realitives, supposing they do not have alztimers or dementia, I wonder, if they ever think to themselves, boy, I am sure glad I never had a bite of choclate cake or I might never have achived this. 6:23 PM - 4/10/2007 - post comment
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