Eating or Drinking:

Eating or Drinking:

Believe it or not some people eat food all these years but they have never experienced the chewing, crushing of food or even swallowing. Some chew all their life others swallow all their life a few here and there swallow then chew. Ask yourself this prudent question are you being chewed , crushed or swallowed by life or you the one chewing, crushing and swallowing. There better be answers.  Some situation in life need chewing first, others need to be crushed before swallowed because if you try to jump on of the stages you will definitely get chocked, puke or have a running stomach in life.  Your accumulated sick call will not help you in this. Hear me here you are the patient as well as the Physician.  To some the taste in the mouth is more important than dunking in the stomach. The process of food break down…..peristalsis… think about it, sometimes we rush through life without realizing life is honest self, because surely with time it will bring us back to the stages in life that we consciously or unconsciously jumped or missed to evolve through.. (We all have moments of truth).

Food and drink is associated with Family, Fun and Friends (disregard all the three words that begin with F because it sucks sometimes, and as they say be careful of Masses because when you remove M only ashes remain, you know I didn't mean ashes). Family, Fun and Friends we must all live with them and eternally be grateful that we have them.  So in the activity of eating food, there are a number of things that play in the mind here.  First of all we have to scoop the food. It’s up to you to pick your food with a fork or spoon like the western world does, chop sticks like the Chinese or Oriental East do or with your bare hands like Most of Africans do. Whichever method you use or prefer does not show sophistication, civilization or superiority concept.  Do not rush to judge this analogy because am not done yet. I am neither judging you because you expect me to understand that your upbringing was too haste to bring you up before it brought you down. If you don’t have an answer you must always have an escape route in life, find something, circumstances or a person to blame. As usual, this is the reason why you don’t enjoy you food all this years.  

Back to the fork, chopsticks and hands.  All this eating habits are critically important and interwoven. They are inseparable.  There comes a moment in life that you must handle situations using a fork to sieve through sand and scoop a few friends here and there. There will come another moment in life that you will require chopsticks to tighten things together with forgiveness as you row your boat across the oceans of life, the chopsticks will help you  formulate a striking balance like a skiing nugget in both ends.  Lastly there will come a time that you will need to use your hands,get dirty, be real , pound the dough of life so as to bake the bread of life.

Original works & Thoughts by: Njoroge wa Ngige 030415