Hangry

Hangry: one's emotional state of being angry caused by the heightened sense of hunger.

I like this word. It's pretty funny. I have another amalgam I'm going to share tomorrow that is I think just as good.

But how does this apply to now? Well, I am hungry, but I am not angry. Why am I hungry to the point of writing about it when I've gone without food for months at a time? Today is different.

One day a month I fast, meaning I eat or drink NOTHING for the time period in which I would have eaten two meals. Normally a breakfast and lunch. I then take the money I would have spent on those two meals and donate it.

Yesterday I got hangry. But today, while not eating with a purpose I've been able to successfully avoid getting hangry. If you believe that as an entity you are composed of two sides as it were, physical and spiritual then it is pretty cool to see how one side can effect the other.

I'd like to believe that by doing something like this, besides just helping someone by donating money for them to get food, I gain some control over my physical body. I become the boss, not "it". Self mastery.

Like my mom always told me, we don't often get to choose what happens in life, but we do get to choose how we react to it.