* I'm increasingly of the mind that sugar is a form of legalized drug: high followed by a low, cravings, bad for the taker, etc. For Lent I cut down on my sugar intake dramatically, and it really makes a difference in terms of mood stablization, weight, etc. But eventually, I always seem to come back to it.
* Identity is really interesting, isn't it? And its related to, but not the same as, the labels we choose - or that get chosen for us. And both identity and labels have a power to them, not least in how others relate to us. They're also not stable or frozen...there's a kind of Heisenburg's Principle at work, I think, in that the moment one thinks they have "who I am" nailed down, it's already fluttered off on butterfly wings towards something different, just in the act of living (or even of the knowing), though that difference may take a long time to manifest; it can feel stable, but is it, ever?
Labels are interesting, too: in seemingly a blink the "middle age" label was acquired, without a clear choosing having been made, and soon all of us of a certain age will be "old" people. It's all shorthand for others so they know how to slot us, I suppose...but for ourselves as well? Are other aspects of identity, or labels, any different, in terms of how many are acquired, rather than chosen? And how very much of both are tied to bodies that we didn't have a choice in occupying, and how much will change - or be lost? - when the body ceases to be? In the end, how much is essentially "us," if so much is tied to things that are impermanent?
Probably answers to those questions will differ with each person. And what a wonderful thing that is.
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Date: 2022-04-12 08:02 pm (UTC)* I'm increasingly of the mind that sugar is a form of legalized drug: high followed by a low, cravings, bad for the taker, etc. For Lent I cut down on my sugar intake dramatically, and it really makes a difference in terms of mood stablization, weight, etc. But eventually, I always seem to come back to it.
* Identity is really interesting, isn't it? And its related to, but not the same as, the labels we choose - or that get chosen for us. And both identity and labels have a power to them, not least in how others relate to us. They're also not stable or frozen...there's a kind of Heisenburg's Principle at work, I think, in that the moment one thinks they have "who I am" nailed down, it's already fluttered off on butterfly wings towards something different, just in the act of living (or even of the knowing), though that difference may take a long time to manifest; it can feel stable, but is it, ever?
Labels are interesting, too: in seemingly a blink the "middle age" label was acquired, without a clear choosing having been made, and soon all of us of a certain age will be "old" people. It's all shorthand for others so they know how to slot us, I suppose...but for ourselves as well? Are other aspects of identity, or labels, any different, in terms of how many are acquired, rather than chosen? And how very much of both are tied to bodies that we didn't have a choice in occupying, and how much will change - or be lost? - when the body ceases to be? In the end, how much is essentially "us," if so much is tied to things that are impermanent?
Probably answers to those questions will differ with each person. And what a wonderful thing that is.