Thursday, June 23, 2011

NEEDS?

I am mowing lawns for the city of Norton Shores this summer with my father.  I am either on the mower or walking tree to tree, sign to sign, weed wacking.  I have pleanty of time to think on this job.  Different ideas and thoughts will run through my head.  A lot of the time I think about what I want to do with my future.  I have a crazy idea to tripple major, which arose with this time on the mower.  I will also have crazy revelations, or new ideas that cross my mind, that I love to ponder on.  I will share one in the following:

What are essentials?  What are needs?  Can you name a few?  I think that the common answer would be food, water, clothes and shelter.  The question that stirs in me is:  Are these really needs?  I believe, and have come to find, that these essentials are not needs without the underline for what?  To better explain myself, if you are speaking of the basic needs of food, water, clothes, and shelter as needs for life, then yes these are very much so essentials.  My question is what is wrong with dying?  Without the underline for life, these examples are not needs at all.  Without any underline for what, there are not any needs at all. 

As my mind was processing this information, it brought this thought a step further.  What about people with health diseases?  Take obesity for example.  If life is your underline for what, then there are now more needs to be listed.  Obesity is one of the leading causes of death in America.  To a victum of this disease there are now the needs of food, water, clothes, and shelter, but I would like to add the need of not eating.  It is a proven fact that fasting is a very healthy practice.  This practice gives your body a day of rest.  An organ like your liver, that normally works on over drive to get ride of all the toxins in our body, can have a day of rest.  Ok, so when you fast your liver does not stop working because there are still a lot of toxins stored in our bodies from the lovely quality of food our world can destroy by packaging and proccessing.  However, it is a very healthy practice. 

If you take this thought to heart then, to an obesity victum, not eating is on the very same page of a need as eating is, for life. 

Just think about it.