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Who defines our values?
Food is no substitute for love (matter of fact, nothing is... but too many children grow up on too many substitutes and not enough of the real thing.)
Date: 10/16/2006 8:02:21 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1498 times Who determines what amount of focus on what issue is too much and what's not enough? Who teaches us what's "really important in life" and what isn't?
In the final analysis, what are the real values worth focusing on? The ones that satisfy real needs. Food, air, water, shelter, freedom, love. The rest is fringes.
In many households, food and issues around it are always a big production,
but it isn't bad in and of itself... what's wrong with this picture is that other things might be missing... love, freedom, safety... and so food is peddled as a universal equivalent. Lots of parents create unhealthy issues around food this way. They assume feeding their kids "right" means loving them, and feeding them real hard or real healthy means showing real love. Nothing is farther from the truth. Food is no substitute for love (matter of fact, nothing is... but too many children grow up on too many substitutes and not enough of the real thing.) For most people with "food issues," disentangling this (very widespread) food-love knot means a chance to have a real relationship with food for the first time. When food becomes only food, only what it really is, one can finally appreciate it as one of the basic life-giving values, and enjoy its every aspect, including its healing powers, rather than struggle with it, hate or ignore it, or desperately try to get out of it something it can never give.
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