Awhile back I saw this news story on PBS about children living in poverty in this nation. The news story has not left my mind. I think about it contently.
http://www.pbs.org/...
Yesterday I got a crazy idea. I was going to semi fast for thirty-one hours (odd number but I want to eat dinner with my family tonight and I know if I eat at the 24 hour mark I wont want to eat dinner). It has been 23 hours since my last real meal. I have nibbled on a couple of crackers and liquids. I feel awful to say the lest but I am lucky. I know tonight I get to eat a wonderful meal my family that husband will cook. How many children go to bed each night that can not see the light at the end of the tunnel?
This is a list of some of the things I have experienced with my semi fast:
1. It has taken me most of the morning to write this diary because I am having an extremely hard time concentrating. I had to leave it and come back several times. I am sure there will be errors that I will not catch during proof reading.
2. Lots of mood swings. Last night when my family was eating dinner I became angry because they were eating and I wasn't. I caught myself looking for things to fight about.
3. Very sluggish. Even the task of changing the laundry seemed draining.
4. Constant feeling of being sick. Just do not feel good and want people to leave me alone.
No wonder children who do not get 3 meals a day have a hard time learning and are falling further behind in school. They need healthy meals to be able to focus in school, feel well, and have better self-esteem and better outlook on life. For me the children in this world starving as a result of greed is one of the biggest injustices happening every single day. What I did was just for a short time and I could have caved at any point if I wanted. I can't even imagine how much worse it is for the children who have to go to bed hungry every night.
My challenge to the greedy 1%, to the politicians, and to the so called 53% movement: watch the news story, then have a semi fast for 24 hours (just crackers and liquids also drink a pop at lunch time without food since corporate creed put the damn pop machines in the schools), and then after the fast is over and before you eat view the news story again and do a google search on poverty amongh children look at the pictures. If you do not have a change of heart in ideology then you really are the worse kind of scum among the human race.