Have you ever been hungry?

January 29, 2019, 06:29 PM

Rey HRH

Because of my own stupidity. Single, a week before payday, no money, I had an open bag of stale chips at the bottom and I used mayonnaise as a dip. No cigarettes. I squeezed out the tobacco from stubs in an ashtray and rolled it on a toilet paper. Could not do more than the first puff.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

January 29, 2019, 06:53 PM

pbslinger

I don't really understand why, but I have memories not getting enough to eat and my stomach growling before school lunch. Don't know if it was something I did to cause it like not eating enough dinner or breakfast. Possibly my parents didn't monitor my eating since I was the youngest of 4 and they were about done parenting when I came along.

My parents divorced right about when I graduated high school and they shared minimal college expenses. The one semester I lived in the dorm, no food was served on Sunday except breakfast. I was first in line for breakfast on Monday morning.

After high school I was on my own working rough in house construction. I lived at a friend's house for a while (I'm mourning his loss, he passed 1/27/19) then to an apartment with another friend. Had a problem with my car and quit going to work. I came to appreciate food after that.