yes,

it was doing the opposite...

because it was upside down.

on the concept of 'thin'

what's wrong in this world.... when we have people starving themselves, or mentally struggling with the thought of eating, because they want to be thin.... and yet we also have people who are so thin.... with no access to food.... with no access to water, to those basic necessities to sustain the life that we all biologically live through...

how can it be that people in the western world, the world where we have so much that we do not know how to deal with the excess.... we get so overwhelmed... its too much stimuli, too much food, too many ideals, too many beliefs and messages and expectations and standards and ever-changing ever-expanding demands... that we must fulfill...

yet there are others... who exist within the natural confines that the environment places upon them... that live working just getting by.... no excess time to think, to analyze, to delve into whatever psychological fixation has captured them... body image, success, relationship drama, fashion, money, debt, schedule, events... let alone more stressing issues such as supporting your children, having a clean stable home in which to raise them in... with food in their bellies...

yet there are those who do not want to eat, do not want to put food in their bellies, for fear of being fat, they want to be thin... wait a second, isn't food there to sustain us... to carry on the cycle of life?

it is this thinness, those lovely natural diuretics we call diarrhea, dysentry... that KILLS human beings, children, in lands where they don't have that choice to not eat, don't have that privelage to starve themselves, or to binge on a large quantity of highly nutritious food, and then purge it right back out, and then do it again...

there are people dying to eat... yet there are people choosing to starve... and yet, they do so, because of the ideals they see and hear and feed off of and have their ENTIRE lives... and our society supports and perpetuates all of this... we do it to eachother...

i do not get it, and i do not support it... and i am sad to see so many (mostly) women harming themselves, because these ideals that move them in that direction are warped, and do not have their best interest at hand... and that i do not understand too.

i care about my fellow human beings... and we need to support eachothers sustainability... support eachothers lives...

put it into context...

lets balance out the scales...

value of life...

i am a person living on 'the system'...

i am on social assistance... i cannot afford to buy myself lots of new clothes and the newest cell phone or go out for dinner....

but i can cook, and i can reuse old clothes and i can have face to face conversations that are real and genuine and with good intention....

i spend my time volunteering, learning to dance in exchange for work....

supporting my fellow human beings in their rallies and marches and discussions over issues of the environment, our fellow human beings... our earth, our rights and respects...

and our equality, our ONE-ness...

standing up for what i believe in, what i know is right...

this feels right for me...

it just so happens to not be too focused on money.

i call this the value of life...

because how DO we value our life?

and how do we value our death?

be the connection....

you know that connection...

that direct contact...

when you're plugged in!...

when you're plugged into EVERYTHING...

in life...

the most beautiful basics...

that which all is made from...

that keep us alive...



be it...

be it, like feel it.

feel it... in and on all levels....

because you are it...

breathe with it, into it, supporting it...

letting it touch your body....

try to feel it, taste it.... smell it....

see it...

sometimes its hard to do all.... but its possible...

you just be it...

and you are it.

and it feels really good...

i am thankful... for all that i am blessed with in my life...

i am humbled, and blessed,

and i recognize this.

Love sunni