Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

While preparing for last Friday’s meeting with the NCCA-CVA, I realized that I had nothing to say about that period in my life when I was studying in college. At the meeting, I joked that I was “too busy being educated” or that I was sleeping all throughout my college education. College life was a “blackhole.” Perhaps because life outside of college was vibrant and living. To say that the best years of my life was at school would be to get damned. Anyway, I believe that there are many “blackholes” in our lives, those moments similar to the rodent running in its cage in a wheel.Living in Metro Manila is probably the biggest “blackhole” in my life. The many short instances that I stayed in cities and towns outside Metro Manila always inspired in me the desire to move out of the chaotic city. However, as soon as I got back “home”, the inspiration dissipates and life goes on - business as usual - in the eternal “blackhole.”

Would the real “blackhole” be living in the Philippines? I hope not!

Perhaps one method of identifying “blackoles” is through the perspective of priorities: what, indeed, are those things that truly give meaning to one’s life? What are those things that give the illusion of meaning and purpose but actually obscure if not divert one’s attention and energies from those that are true? Why do we allow ourselves to be distracted?

“Blackholes” capture energy. Perhaps when we have too much energy, “blackholes” are useful for minimizing them and keeping them from exploding. However, “blackholes” never give back energy - so the strength to walk away from them is not there. If we could get the energy from elsewhere, then we should jump on the opportunity to pull ourselves out of the “blackhole” before it depletes our energies again.

There are many little “blackholes” in my life, such as television, as well as the Internet. Just like college education, “Internet life” is a “blackhole.” Perhaps because my life outside of the Internet is vibrant and living. To say that the best years of my life was when I found the Internet would be to get damned.

There is a typhoon so I have not been able to go out into the garden and see what has been happening to the vegetables that Trevor and I planted together many weeks ago. Perhaps here the Internet “blackhole” is useful because it absorbs the energy of my anxiousness to see the vegetables. I hope tomorrow will be a better day.

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