Wednesday, November 08, 2006
So did I
And I'm a new man.
I've taken away several lessons from this. The most obvious, of course, is that I'm a gluttonous, self-indulgent American fatass at heart, and it's not really in my nature to deny that for longer than about 60 hours at a time. Another is that the value of food goes far beyond its nutritive qualities: it's essential to things like comfort, satisfaction, general life enjoyment, etc.
But the biggest lesson of the fast as a whole has to be this: If you're going to undertake a project that requires self-sacrifice for an extended period of time (and in this instance, I think five days counts), you have to have it thought out pretty extensively. I went into this without a clear goal and without a clear rationale -- all I really had was enthusiasm, and after my second day on nothing but stupid gross lemonade, well, let's just say my enthusiasm vanished and left a gaping hole where my drive to the finish should have been.
I suppose I've probably lost blogging privileges, but no matter. In the words of Chris Rock, "Shorty can't eat no books."
I've taken away several lessons from this. The most obvious, of course, is that I'm a gluttonous, self-indulgent American fatass at heart, and it's not really in my nature to deny that for longer than about 60 hours at a time. Another is that the value of food goes far beyond its nutritive qualities: it's essential to things like comfort, satisfaction, general life enjoyment, etc.
But the biggest lesson of the fast as a whole has to be this: If you're going to undertake a project that requires self-sacrifice for an extended period of time (and in this instance, I think five days counts), you have to have it thought out pretty extensively. I went into this without a clear goal and without a clear rationale -- all I really had was enthusiasm, and after my second day on nothing but stupid gross lemonade, well, let's just say my enthusiasm vanished and left a gaping hole where my drive to the finish should have been.
I suppose I've probably lost blogging privileges, but no matter. In the words of Chris Rock, "Shorty can't eat no books."
