I guess it's fitting that my first post for this blog be about something this bizarre. When I tell people that I've done a 14 day true fast, meaning I only drank water for 14 days and nothing else, I typically get no immediate response. They just kind of look at me for a sec. I assume, or maybe I hope, that what is going on in their head sounds something like "Wait a minute, I had this guy squarely in the normal column and now he just busts out with this inanity?"
But that's exactly what I'm about to do, again. A fast consisting of only water for up to 14 days, probably not anymore. I'll go into the specifics of why that last sentence lacked specifics in a minute, but I think I'm getting ahead of myself.
I'm hoping I motivate enough to turn this blog into more than just an account of my crazy starvation voodoo. I've been wanting to start a blog for awhile now - I like to write and certainly have no shortage of opinions - so those seem as good of reasons as any. I'm actually hoping for some audience participation, although I certainly don't have any delusions of grandeur. I'm hoping that I can engage some people I know and maybe some that I don't just yet because what I love even more than writing and expressing my own opinion is hearing other people's opinions and passions. Sometimes it leads to enlightenment and other times just to lightheadedness but I always seem to learn something no matter what.
Call it debate, call it argument, call it good, call it bad, it really doesn't matter what you call it or what the outcome is because what it always does is engage. Engage your mind, your imagination, your morality, whatever - as long as the synapses are firing, you know you're alive.
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