I am thankful that I am a "one percenter"

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I don't know about that. It is just that once in a while I need to give myself one upside the head to resync myself with reality.

Yesterday, I had a real first world problem. What to do with the left over food.....There are a ton of people around the world that just simply don't understand that problem. Kinda makes one think hard about one's life.

Easy problem. In such situations I just consider whether or not it makes a difference for anyone whether I keep small rest of a meal, and whether or not packing it up and sending it to a disaster area while hoping it gets there without rotting first, is a realistic option. I usually conclude it is not.

Why worrying about a left-over potatoe when knowing that half of the potato harvest gets destroyed immediately, because the fruits have a form that is not pleasurable enough to the eye and will find no buyers on the market? Fact, at least in Europe. Half of the harvested potatoes - get plowed under immediately again, cannot be sold.

Do accept changes in your behavior where your change indeed makes a real and realistic effect. Everything else is just sentimentality - and sentimentality does nothing for nobody. Expect one's own ego-show, maybe.

And when you have one potatoe left repeatedly, learn to cook a little smaller amount of food in the first.


P.S. No, I do not like the taste of cooked but cold potatoes. Thats why I do not keep them, and do not use them for cold salad or such things. For the drought-hit area in africa, my decision makes no difference. None. So why becoming emotional about that potatoe. Its just a potatoe, like that dandelion under my window is just that. In the forest, I may find an eatable mushroom. I may pick it or leave it. So what?

The real first world luxury problem here is that you even think about this all being a problem worth your time and consideration - could that be? If you fight for your daily survial, you have no time to waste on such unsubstantial follies. You just have to come to terms with what the day brings you. - Think twice before attacking me for my "cold-heartedness". Its not that.