Is it right to feel like this?
I worry that my diabetes is somehow related to
a) my gluttony
b) gluttony in the world
(gluttony)
I live in a world of plenty, . Well, that’s to say there has never been a real shortage of food in my life and I have always had access and lots of choice about food. But I love food and have a tendency to over indulge. I’m realising this is damaging me. I understand the carbohydrate issue too and that I might just have a susceptibility to carbohydrates, but I still think I have over eaten most of my life and I’m glad I’m looking into it and thinking about what I eat now.
(gluttony in the world)
I kind of get a bad feeling inside… I know I have plenty but I’m aware that others elsewhere in the world don’t have the same access or choice or amount of food and that I have. What their country grows might have to be sold on a world market in order for the country to survive. This market economy skews things in my opinion and in order to survive, some people cut corners some of the time. They reduce the quality to increase the yield, this kind of thing. In the west we even benefit again in this competition through access to resources and putting our scientific knowledge into action. I’m thinking of things like GM crops, battery v free range hens, but also about things like child exploitation in places where child labour is still used and the
chocolate industry.
(this ones a fuzzy but chocolate is a real luxury item here in England but elsewhere it is just a product that many people work in bad conditions all day to produce for us and they would never get the chance to even taste it.)
I can’t disassociate myself from the fact that I have developed diabetes.
I can do something about it and I am trying hard to learn about what I can do right now to halt its progress. That feels empowering to me.
But I also cant seem to change the fact that I am both sensitive and rational and what I think and see and feel in life affects me. I can’t change the world. Given a chance I would try...
The fact that I think, see and feel like this causes me a lot of grief in my life -Its emotionally crippling.
Does anyone else feel like this? How can I cope with my feelings about things when I cant change things around me? It makes me feel so out of control.
Sparkles.
I worry that my diabetes is somehow related to
a) my gluttony
b) gluttony in the world
(gluttony)
I live in a world of plenty, . Well, that’s to say there has never been a real shortage of food in my life and I have always had access and lots of choice about food. But I love food and have a tendency to over indulge. I’m realising this is damaging me. I understand the carbohydrate issue too and that I might just have a susceptibility to carbohydrates, but I still think I have over eaten most of my life and I’m glad I’m looking into it and thinking about what I eat now.
(gluttony in the world)
I kind of get a bad feeling inside… I know I have plenty but I’m aware that others elsewhere in the world don’t have the same access or choice or amount of food and that I have. What their country grows might have to be sold on a world market in order for the country to survive. This market economy skews things in my opinion and in order to survive, some people cut corners some of the time. They reduce the quality to increase the yield, this kind of thing. In the west we even benefit again in this competition through access to resources and putting our scientific knowledge into action. I’m thinking of things like GM crops, battery v free range hens, but also about things like child exploitation in places where child labour is still used and the
chocolate industry.
(this ones a fuzzy but chocolate is a real luxury item here in England but elsewhere it is just a product that many people work in bad conditions all day to produce for us and they would never get the chance to even taste it.)
I can’t disassociate myself from the fact that I have developed diabetes.
I can do something about it and I am trying hard to learn about what I can do right now to halt its progress. That feels empowering to me.
But I also cant seem to change the fact that I am both sensitive and rational and what I think and see and feel in life affects me. I can’t change the world. Given a chance I would try...
The fact that I think, see and feel like this causes me a lot of grief in my life -Its emotionally crippling.
Does anyone else feel like this? How can I cope with my feelings about things when I cant change things around me? It makes me feel so out of control.
Sparkles.