Saturday, October 01, 2011
If there was no compulsion to eat, some human beings would never get out of bed. I learnt that today as a first-hand experience, as I was the human in question. Today being Saturday, I had no pressing need to get up in the morning. I slept for quite some time and finally, when the rumble in my stomach could not be ignored and started giving me a headache, I had to force myself to get up and prepare something to eat. Lo and behold, once the morsels met my stomach juices, the headache disappeared completely.
It made me wonder – if I hadn’t needed to feed my grumbling stomach and gain energy, would I just have slept the whole day?