Monday, September 23, 2024

What's up with continuing those repetitive exclusionary survival patterns?

Yesterday:

X: I think that I get hangry sometimes. I was starting to get upset about societal inequity and was compulsively chewing on my fingers. But I also had some sushi in the car, and I asked myself, do you just need something to eat? And after I got home and ate it, I felt better.

Y: You're just realizing that you get hangry?

X: I thought I was upset about the injustice in the world, but I also realized I'm less upset about it when my belly is full.

(Not that societal inequity is okay, but at least the painful, unhelpful, compulsive chewing on fingers and clothes was no longer such a battle.)

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