Or “weirdness of modern philosophy”…
“You are what you eat” or “a person can be known by their friends.” To some extent, these are synonyms.
But are these statements true at all?
When we eat food, we don’t integrate it into ourselves in their original form. Eating watermelon won’t make you round. Eating thin spaghetti won’t make you thin and skinny.
Are we able to look deeper?
We are conditioned to believe that we cannot influence the outcome of most events and circumstances in our lives.
When food enters the body, it breaks down, and then parts of it are either integrated or discarded.
We don’t have to take the shape of what surrounds us.
A serial killer can come from a good family, while from an orphanage may come a philanthropist helping thousands of people.
The modern dogma is that you need almost perfect conditions to start doing something.
Sometimes you just need to “eat.” Just survive in order to break out to where you need to go. There isn’t always a perfect environment. There isn’t always perfect physical and mental nourishment.
Adapt. Borrow what you need, and throw away the excess. Don’t believe in a black-and-white world. It is mostly “gray.”
One person from abuse will learn that people can’t be trusted, while another will learn compassion.
Accept that you are where you are today. But every decision and action you take influences where you may end up tomorrow.
