The second contemplative practice stood out to me as the most impactful; it came about the time I was plan to eat my first meal of the day, as I always end up forgetting to grab something in the morning. I was starting to get the first feelings of hunger that always precipitate a meal – not really necessity, just the most minor pangs of a building appetite while I decided what to grab to eat. Not eating was not, and had never been, a matter of availability or inability; mainly just laziness, not wanting to be late, or just simply not feeling like eating in the morning.<\/p>\n
This apathy towards the sustenance that keeps me going made the juxtaposition of my relationship with food at the moment and those directly affected by world hunger much more impactful; there was no way to really understand what the people described in the Silent Killer<\/em> face, as any real attempt at comparison between that and “I’m feeling a bit hungry” is inane. The only times I’ve ever been without a meal for 12 hours beyond my control have been for blood tests (and even then, I’d know a meal would come in the test’s immediate aftermath), whereas many will miss meals every day, and not even know if they will have another within a day or two. Taking a few moments to reflect on this is the only real way to properly understand that I can’t really understand this issue in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second contemplative practice stood out to me as the most impactful; it came about the time I was plan to eat my first meal of the day, as I always end up forgetting to grab something in the morning. I was starting to get the first feelings of hunger that always precipitate a meal – not really necessity, just… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","category-world-hunger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}