a meaningful life
FOOD: BECAUSE YOU ARE A Machine and must not malfunction.
You cannot live "a Meaningful Life", if you are busy killing yourself...
Mon.April.1.2024 - Ubochi Orie
Some of the worst things about living in Africa are the things who put in our bodies. Some out of colonial confusion, some out of choice and others out of the abject necessity of economic capacity. Our people move around with human frames (bodies) that are a liability to meaning because the contents are a drag on Health, Heart and Mindset, creating undue friction for the complete round trip to Mars that is the journey of a meaningless life.
No matter your economic condition, you must seek and find, with a fight, a diet that "enables" your ability to function at peak performance of Body, Mind and Spirit.
In fact, if I were poor, I would only drink spirits and natural wines. The additional load of the expenses of Beers, their burdensome feel on the belly and the General Lifestyles around Beer Parlors is a drag on economic stability and physical Well Being. Furthermore, in drinking Spirits, I would not go for Cheap Liqueur or luxury brands but with a middle ground where quality refining meets no name recognition and I can purchase a quality Distillation that when mixed with Juices can give me the necessary reliefs of alcohol's Dilution of the days events without disrupting my pocket and bowl movements.
Where possible, I would default to natural wines, whether Palm Wine or any home brews that will afford me the reliefs of Alcohol without the consequences encased in the modern Beers or the Branded destructions of "Nne, Ibuo 5", the embalment fliuds found in sachets at road side shops and village cabanas all across Africa.
I start with Alcohol because even I fail here. Living across the world in hotels, does not afford one the access to a blender or Mortar or any range within reach of a Palm Wine tapper, but this is no excuse and even I must start NOW to control what fuels my systems.
Our choices in food are driven by, supported or limited by Colonial Confusions, Choice, Pleasure, Economic Lack, Wealth Excesses, Gluttony and a lack of understanding of the purpose of food, but you must understand that you are merely a Machine and you must be careful about the wear and tear of poor fluids and bad fuels on the engine that God Made.
HUMAN MACHINE
It is impossible to take very serious the considerations on what you eat until you take into account that you are merely a machine. A machine made by "God or Nature", you decide, but all the same, a machine and you have the potential to malfunction.
Every exhibition of ailment, Disease, Weakness, Distress and other "unnatural" feeling in the body are a direct distress signal sent by the human OBD System in your body to alert you to the inefficiency, Accidental crashes or other Devaluations from the default capacity of your human machine.
Often these are as a result of extra-ordinary mental stress, and/or intrusion into your spirit by Esoteric forces but more often, these are a direct result of your mismanagement of the machine, most notably through your diet preferences, and the loading and unloading of the wrong fuels and Lubricants into your system, in type, volume or Nutritional Configuration.
Much in the same way that cars take different types of Oil based on Make, Age and Model, you need to understand the natural nature of the need to only fuel your body with the foods "it" requires inline with your own individual conditions, make-up and the direction of your "Meaningful Life".
In short, you are a machine, a human machine, and the foods you eat must be fit for Purpose, your purpose.
THE PURPOSE OF FOOD
Food for The Human Being Is The Same As Fuel And Lubricants Are To Cars. They Are An Energy Source And Their Whole Aim And Purpose Is To Ensure Your Health And Mental Acuity For Life. Beyond This, Attempts At A Focus On Pleasure, Economic Pressures And Assimilations Of Culinary Cultures Is Akin To Engaging In A Bidding War For An Engine Breakdown.
In Cars, The Wrong Fuel Literally Make The Car, Huff, Puff And Park On The Side Of The Road. The Wrong Oils Or Lack Thereof Can Mean An Accident If It Is Brake Fluid And The Brakes Fail Or A Catastrophic Engine Explosion If You Choose To Use Water As Engine Oil. In Humans We Call These Cancer And Heart Attacks. How Can Any Of Theses Be Part Of "A Meaningful Life"?
A Meaningful Life, Entails Life As It Was Designed - Satisfaction, Fulfilment, Achievement, Fullness. It Needs Food As It Was Designed, Satisfying (Not Pleasure), Fulfilling (Not Burdensome), Achieved (Not Stolen) And Full (Not Overloaded).
The foods you eat are supposed to be suited to your Tribe, Religion, Profession, Social Status, Marital Status and more and must have the right nutritional loads to support whatever stage of life in which you are in and your destination overall.
Rich or Poor, you owe it to yourself to do everything in your power to meet the demands, else you will pay for it down the road, in the emissions of the Poisons you put inside dropping out of your tail pipes as excess fecal discharge, soaking out of the engine as Sweat or dripping out the A/C as Piss. Worse still, it may remain in your body and create the rusts of Cancer, the line blockages that lead to Heart Attacks or the incredible overloads that keep you tussing and turning Every night, as if the food that was meant to help you, is now bad fuels, that is refusing the car any forward movement.
At the heart of our mismanagement of food are several factors, chief of which is Colonial Confusions of our Natural Diet.
COLONIAL CONFUSIONS
Speaking chiefly to my brother Africans, I wish to reiterate the need to restore control of everything about our lives and cultures from the Colonial prision that they now occupy.
Starting with food and with my own local Clan let me make a clear illustration.
pre-Colonization, our chief food was in this order, Yam, Cocoa Yam, Goat Meat, Palm Oil, a Range of Soups made of Fresh Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts and Grains, Fresh Fruits and Palm Wine. These foods are the apex collection of Whole Foods, with massive nutritional density, ease of preparation, natural preventative medical components, Digestive balances and ease of access and cultivation in our natural environments.
Post Colonial, our Chief Foods became, in this Order, Cassava (Portugese import, laden with processes for the removal of Poisonous components, which is not often properly prepared), Wheat (European Import, which has no raw consumption value and requires mechanical conversions into Bread and Flours), Cow Meat (Which when compared to Goats and Chickens, neither wins in taste or Nutrition), Vegetable Oils (Which are not made from any vegetables I know), A range of Canned and Processed Foods like Noodles, Cereals and Ocean fishes (non of which originate from our environment, and non of which are the same quality as the range available in our homeland, and non of which are necessary preservations in a continent where food has not risk of freezing and farms have no Winter).
For Fruits, they have Convinced us the A is for Apple and Udala is a local food. I still do not understand how local became bad, okay am just joking, I do, but it is a long story and more suitable for a "The God's Are Not to Blame" Article. To kill it all, we now import Red, Wine, Yellow, Green and other odd colour water Fomentations of Grains and Grapes and value them over the fresh Water Reserve above the Palm tree, which Refreshes life without the Poisonous risks of these foreign chemicals. By the way, I mean Palm Wine, we now ignore Palm Wine, and fill our bodies with any other thing they say is now good, including brews made of Corn, Rice, Wheat and even Tree Bark, so far as it carries a label, approved by our prison warden.
Examine, your life as a free man, chasing "A Meaningul Life" and jettison any secondary control over your dietary preferences, including from me. This article is not ment to be another cage, but a tribute to understanding that allows you to take your life in your hands, in your best interest, as it relates to food.
ECONOMIC LACK
There are a million ways to drink Garri, get creative.
For most of our people, economic lack has become a deep drain on food choice, however this is more present because of our submission to colonial confusion and I hope that the poor or low income, who read this article can begin to free themselves of unnecessary dietary choices, where possible.
1st of all, if you are poor and live in a village or Rural community, shame on you, if you have 2 hands and 2 legs and a working brain and still complain of food. You should and must be engaged in some sort of farming, even if it is only as a side hustle for the sole purpose of feeding yourself.
There is no rule that says that you must eat Canned Sardines, or Branded Noodles, Bread is not enshrined in Law and you must not drink Cow Milk. Endeavor to find land to keep animals and farm crops that can be held in storage simply by sun Drying or shading such that you and your loved ones can have ready meals.
Trade what you do not need, for what you do not have and ignore any notion of matching up with City folk. Eat to live and be strong and in time the passions of your heart, if they are not in Agriculture, can be better accessed by a strong frame and the good looks of a person who eats well and is smiling through the hardships of modern life. This control of your survival and health, this alone, makes you more attractive as a Musician, Preacher, Teacher, Scientist or whatever other aspirations you have, and for which you are avoiding the farm and harming yourself all the while.
For those in the City, the economic limits may seem unbreakable, but I am 100% sure that nature abhores a vacuume and that when you look around yourself, you will find wonderful little things that you can do to correct your consumption with your current budget. As you do this, I can assure you that the added energy and clarity of mind will enable you to gradually upgrade and scratch your way out from the pit of poverty and dispare.
However, if you insist on not making the changes, your systems will continue to cost you all the same and even more, in hospitalizations, lost performance and even death, because yes, "Nature abhors a Vacuum" and that which is not done must have "costs", equally as that which is "well done" will have benefits.
Forget brands, focus on nutritional loads and ensure that you and your loved ones each "good", Content rich foods and not "Chicken", who ever said that you must eat Chicken?
GLUTTONY
Where lack fails the poor, excess fails both the rich and the poor. The propensity of a Bus driver to drink 6 bottle of Beer every night is both an economic drag on his financial capacity, as it is a mental excess and Physical overload of his 5 feet 6 inch frame.
In the end, no joy is derived from the drinking session because it Breaks the point of Dilution to the days drame and enters the realm of abuses of the body's mechanical systems.
The Rich also over-Indulge and while this may not affect their financial successes, it cannot be a route to "A Meaningful Life" to turn into a corpse Every night from comatose levels of Drug and Alcohol consumption, or to consume so much Chicken as to lay in the bed with the same gloom and confused dormancy of an overfeed Boiler.
PLEASURE
While it is okay for food to taste good, it is important to tailor this pleasure and maintain it as a natural component of a good diet and not an addictive preference that leaves you as the tasting companion of your favorite confectioner.
Many people, both rich and Poor, have fallen victim to a need for every food to taste like Sugar. With this many people are now fast food, Oil and Sugar addicts that can no longer be satisfied by normal home cooked meals, but must now Indulge in fried sweets like Shawarma, as a meal and not the road side snack, it is ment to be.
When you eat for pleasure, your pleasure centers overpower your common sense and you are no longer able to eat for the values of food.
Wean yourself. Draw back from 3 cubes of Sugar in the tea, pull back from needing a Dip of Barbeque Sauce for every single bite of chicken, step away from the need to eat a breakfast that in the end makes the morning a Blur, the Afternoon a drag and Nighttime a time to review a day in which you did nothing worth noting.
Eat to live and not as a living itself.
CHOICE
Choice is a very dangerous companion for anyone who wishes to live "A Meaningful Life", this because often we follow our "emotions" and not "reason". In the end the choices that you make, were never "made" but rather "yielded" to.
Where you have no economic limitations, or have a general access to food, or in poverty, have a limited selection be careful about your choices.
I repeat that "Nature, abhors a vacumme" inorder to state, that no matter your lot in life, there is always a choice that moves you forward and one that keeps you stuck. Take the right steps, to ensure that your food choices are not emotional selections or driven by your environment, but that they are a conscious optimatization of the available options, in order to full your ability to grow, thrive and have more ideal options in the future.
I personally consider my food options as part of where I live, and when i am done with the Permanent Black House (My ideal Private Residence), many people will understand why the current one (Official Residence Today), which is considered big, is small... the key change, raw land, for direct control of my food options. Not just the choice in food, but a choice in how it is grown or raised, such that I can control not just what I eat, but "what my food eats".
This is not an option that everyone can afford and I recognize this, I only mention it to show how important food is to me. Furthermore, food choice at this level can still be accessed by others, as many who have less means, have greater freedom to move around town than someone with my Public Personae. Again, the solutions in nature, even out the playing field, with a give and take at each end, level or Spectrum of life.
EATING FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE
A good meal should be as fulfilling as life itself, it should have meaning and purpose in order to be part of A Meaningful Life.
A Meaningful Life, is simply a life that is oncourse, if you need to understand it more please read this article (What is a Meaningful Life? Why Live it?)
When you are on the journey for "A Meaningful Life", food must be an enabling component of your journey. You must quickly learn which foods enable Sexuality, Fidelity, Strength, Resilience and in general what to consume for each stage of the battle and war that is life.
A man of purpose, must eat for purpose, taking in every meal or drink with an intended result in mind and not as an accidental consumption at occasions or the inducements of peer pressure.
When you drink, you must be acutely aware of the events of life that you wish to dilute with the solution, which solution is best and the right volume for the level of Pain, Joy, Celebration or Discomfort that you wish to dilute. In diluting life, you must not Dissolve it.
When you eat, you must be acutely aware of the Events of life that you wish to refuel for, because if you eat so much that you cannot dance on your wedding night, both at the reception and in the "other room", there is something deeply wrong with your understanding of the purpose of food.
No Wrestler should have the diet of a Thespian and no Warrior should remove too much blood from the meat. In essence, life is individual and so is food choice, but all the same, i encourage that you look at every meal with the understanding that it if fuel.
Make sure that your tank is filled with Jet-A1 at every chance and not bad Kerosine, stored in a rusted tank, that kills the injectors that you need to fire your dreams.
No one should tell you what to eat, including me, however and as a guide, keep it fresh, kill what you eat and if it doesn't expire when air hits it, don't eat it.
No, Food is not "A Meaningful Life" but how can you live a meaningful Life, when you are busy killing yourself.
AML - SERIES PROFILE
A MEANINGFUL LIFE
the "A MEANINGFUL LIFE" series is a non Religious, Non Enterprise look at life and meaning, written with the hope of getting you to a life of pure Joy, real Happiness and Satisfaction with your own life, regardless of your faith and economic profile.
It does not intend to preach, but where necessary it will. At the end, the desired result is that from this series you will pick up the tools to give your life greater meaning, and live a more satisfying existence.
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