“Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of
appetite” -Laurie lee
She was not referring to fasting in the religious sense of
the word, she meant fasting literally. This implies that we can or should
sometimes give up some pleasures; food, friends, lovers, and the likes in other
to preserve their intensity. Sometimes we value less the most priceless things
we have. We tend to value food when we’re starved, a guy once said if you want
to know how sweet water is, try not drinking it for a whole day. We tend to
value family more when we are far from them or get to see them only once in a
while. I have some cousins I haven’t seen in a while now, I miss them but when
I was with them for some years I never knew to value their worth. Being starved
of their presence have preserved as stated earlier, “the intensity”.
Too much of anything; music, entertainment, happy snacks or
time spent with friends, creates a kind of impotence of living, by which one
can no longer hear or taste or see or even remember. Life is short and
precious, and appetite is one of its guardians. Loss of appetite is a sort of
death. So if we are to enjoy this life then we should respect the divinity of
appetite and keep it eager.
So in essence you do not wait for fasting to just show up, u
make it happen, you consciously make it happen.
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