Feeding Out

There is a FEED here!

There is a FEED here!

Everything must feed here, no exceptions. Predators often group kill for a feed. Prey animals, on the other hand, must still find food for themselves, which means migrating, at times, to survive. Humans have migrated as well – at some point in time, humans developed a need to feed on a psychological diet. Nowadays, you can dine out, physically, and experience many kinds of food.

There is a dependency that has developed which includes trust on a broad scale. We have learned about the dangers of trusting others with our food, the same may be true of the information we allow to flow into our minds. How can we exercise caution when a smorgasbord of mental feeding is available? How does one know what to allow psychologically?

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A Feed of Convenience

Feeding is not a pretty sight to see!

Feeding is not a pretty sight to see!

When hunger emerges, no potential feed should be overlooked nor shift in dietary requirements be beyond consideration in satisfying the urge.

As a fellow feeder, I have been plagued many a time, even daily, with the perplexing uncertainty of what to eat or feed upon. My first thought is what’s best for my health and the environment, then I look for what is ready, available and accessible, regardless of what my body really needs.

Once the feeding frenzy is over, my mind then has to justify, mostly through denial, the nasty little memos from my body in revolt.

In nature, predators typically seek out the young, the slow or the unaware. I may do the same on more than the physical level with what I regard as a feed opportunity.

I wonder if being an omnivore with so many FEED choices, has led to a twisted moral sense of entitlement to feed on what I will.

Separation Calls the Feeder

Feeders seek to separate their prey.

Everyone has biases or judgments that support a belief that separating out the best from the rest is important and right. Biases make us feel smart or right through insidious means, dividing our connections with humanity towards a feed. Separation calls the feeder.

We see this in nature. Lions and other predators seeking a feed will focus on the one prey animal that shows signs of or is separate from their group.

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