Relating on the common topic of perspective and emotion:
I often have brief depressive/angry spells. I honestly border on violent rage and self-destruction and have a very short temper. I wonder why I even exist and know that everything is terrible. I want to lose my friends and pity myself.
Then I realize: I'm hungry.
It's pretty embarrassing when I rant on to my parents about how hopeless and miserable life is and then get something to eat and begin laughing.
One never realizes a chronic pain until it is relieved, yes?
So I sometimes forget to eat and then get irascible.
I'm like a freakin' animal that way. A bear or shark or something.
I mean, this isn't every time I'm hungry, I'm angry; it's that mostly when I'm angry, I'm hungry.
Why is it that primitive urges affect some of us so badly?
I should be able to notice when I'm hungry, but it's often too late. I'll walk into the lunchroom and complain to my friends, then eat and be perfectly fine.
My question: is our whole outlook on life really dependent on the amount of nutrients in our body/amount of sleep we have had/even the amount of water we drink?
I enjoyed this post. And to answer your question, yes. I think that basic bodily necessities are required or else our emotions differ. In other words, one can alter their perception based on a lack of food. Kinda throws a loop in that way of knowing.
ReplyDeleteThis probably ties into how people go into desperation mode when really hungry: they hallucinate and lose any ethical boundaries and begin hunting and eating live animals or people. Same goes for sleep, although sleep more makes one edgy and prone to collapsing rather than becoming predatory.
ReplyDeleteI kinda disagree because i don't tend to get overly emotional when i'm hungry, but then again i'm female so i don't rquire as much food as a teenage boy. I think that it does affect me more when i'm tired because most people get cranky when they haven't slept the minimal amount of hours that their body requires :D
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