Full Disclosure
So much for extreme, grandiose statements… I’ll try to avoid those in the future.
As it turns out, this is already having a negative effect on my health. It isn’t serious, but it does mean that I’ll need to eat a bit more than rice. I’m going to stick mostly with rice, two meals a day, and supplement that with a small regular meal (some sort of protein perhaps). That should work out. My health is important to me and to those I love. I’m not a hard-core hunger striker. Still, even this really lets one know just how fortunate we are as Americans! Those displaced villagers hardly have options, and yet here I am able to say, “Oh, I have low blood sugar and will fall unconscious and require hospitalization if I don’t have a bit fuller diet.” Still, even this humble “fast” will be meaningful and challenging for me over the long-term. I pray that change comes soon.
I apologize for not being as good at this activism stuff as some other, better men and women but, as the quote over on the side says, the world won’t wait for perfect people to come along and fix everything so we need to all do what little we can along the way.
Anybody who finds this subject of interest, please see the US Campaign for Burma website. I’m not a member myself, but I find that they have good intentions and take appropriate actions.
~ NG
