(Fast)
Tomorrow I go into hospital for a very minor op (I am expected to live), however in preperation, today I am required to fast (nothing solid).
As anyone who has been here (and this will be my third ? time) will know, “fast” is completely the wrong word for the day.
I have exercised, walked, tidied, written, even done the odd bit of “creating”. Shortly I may even organise my bureau!
While I am at no risk of fading away to even a small elephant, and yes, the smell of cooking is maddening, I feel it is the loss of daily structure (breakfast-lunch-dinner) that is hardest to reconcile.
Hungry, yes of course, but for a man who’s meal structure is often, breakfast, breakfast, breakfast, I find it odd that I am so “disorientated” at the absence of food time. I certainly tend to hand my daily plan around the hooks of “when do I eat”.
While fully accepting that I eat too much, I wonder whether the focus on meals as the lynch pins of my routine, is not, in fact, itself the telling factor. What different life might I live if I structured around, morning afternoon and evening- meditation/ running/ guitar practise?
What do you structure your day around? Just a thought
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Next week on IaDl , good god it’s V day tomorrow…..
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