Hunger

While i don't know hunger like some people (i wont mention names) in less developed countries, or exploited areas of the world know it, I still from time to time experience it. When i do, i often try to correct it by eating junk food.

Im trying to stop liking junk food, its hard, but im slowly weaning myself off of corn chips, cheese nips, snack dips, and sour gummy strips, you know, the multi-colored ones that always come in that crunchy plastic tray.

I have found that drinking the south american beverage yerba mate significantly reduces my appetite. Don't get the wrong idea, im not a fatty. Im six foot nothing and weigh less than 150 lbs. But i feel that i could be eating better. I just don't think it's healthy to appease you hunger for nutrients by shoveling cheap carbs, fats and shamefully delicious sugars laced with all kinds of happy toxins into your body for your liver and intestines to sort out.

I don't want to say that only natural things are good for you, but i seriously doubt that the junk food companies are putting healthy chemicals into the foods in place of perfectly fine natural substances, the artificial shit is in there so it tastes better and has a longer shelf life, not to mention mind control, but im going to stay away from that for now. I just don't believe that these artificial or modified natural substances are better for you than the real thing.

I truly resent the term natural alternatives in terms of medicine. Natural should be first, then if your really fucked up you would resort to using artificial alternatives. Everything we need, we can get out of the ground and not have to modify it. I understand that people want to live in luxury and not have to deal with ailments, but we should not immediately resort to commercially manufactured pharmaceuticals to treat and prevent common problems that can just as well (if not better) be cured by a couple of leaves and roots. Medicine today is engineered to target a single thing, and powerfully eliminate or change its target. Such power toward such a small detail is sure to damage it. It's like spot-cleaning the dirt on you clothes with a high power laser, your going to get more than you bargained for. For so long we have depended on herbs and other noninvasive forms of healing such as massage, accupunture (sort of noninvasive), and chiropractic therapy to heal our bodies and minds, that is how we evolved. At the rate we're going, i wouldn't be surprised if you will eventually become dependent on these engineered chemicals, and those other forms of medicine will disappear completely.

Wow i can really ramble.

As for the photo, i took it while i was visiting my friend on her family's farm. It is wild, yes, but it let us get about 6 feet away before it ran off. 170mm from about 6 feet or so away.

Truly a gift of a moment. My friend spotted it but we didnt have our cameras, we walked the 1/4 mile back to my car, got our cameras and drove back to the spot hoping it didn't run off. It made our day.