Stuff I've thought about recently
Submitted by buddy on Tue, 09/26/2006 - 04:15
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- September 2006
- If you have a weight problem, or depression, or are an alcoholic, people don't feel the need to tell you at every opportunity that those things are bad for your health. That would be rude and imposing. So why do people do that to smokers? Surely the person smoking knows the dangers (how could they not?), and have made their decision. Simply asking someone to do it away from you should be enough to accomplish your right to protect yourself from the evils of second hand smoke.
- Why must people in North America (and the UK and who knows where else) define foods as "bad" or "good"? So if a food is "bad" for you, you stay away from it completely, and a food is "good" for you to eat all the time? How about balance? How about eating REAL food (including real cheese with real taste, sugar, and even *GASP* bacon fat!), and keeping them to once-in-a-while treats? Staying away from "bad" foods does not equal health if you don't also do things good for yourself, like exercising, eating enough fruit/veg/grain/protein/complex carbs, and meditating and/or resting.
- It is important when you travel to remember that everything you see is not necessarily better than everything back home. Neither is it worse. It's just different, and travelling doesn't make you appreciate the wonderful things about your own culture as well as the wonderful things about other peoples' cultures, then you're missing something. It's too easy to glamourise another culture, but remember that observation is not a passive act. You're on holiday, so people around you also act like they're on holiday. They have same-old same-old, too.
This is just stuff I've been thinking about.