Junk Food of the Soul

Daily Meditation 623–11/10/2023

Potato chips are palatable because they’re salty. It’s the same with mixed nuts or trail mix. Same goes for pizza, bread sticks, pretzels and so on.

Chocolate is palatable because they’re sweet. And it’s the same for Swedish Fish, licorice, donuts, Skittles, Reese’s, Snickers or M&Ms…

It’s all junk food. It’s non-nutritive.

Do you remember as a child thinking to yourself “When I grow up, I’m going to stay up late and eat whatever I want all the time?” but then, you did grow up, stay up late, and after a day or two of binge-eating bon-bons, pizza, or chips you felt hungover? Perhaps (if you’re like me) you even had a migraine from all the MSG? Your body was low-energy and sickly, your mind scattered like TV static and addled with depression…

Because we really crave for nutritious food. Sure, we crave for salty and sweet, lip-smacking goodies, but the body tells us through our health and mood it wants vitamins and minerals from nutritious food!

Our mind and soul aren’t so different, frankly.

Politics — CNN, FOX, or NBC (or Twitter, FaceBook, etc) — are palatable because they’re also salty.

Netflix, sports, Hulu, and movies are palatable because they’re sweet.