I have been doing this intermittent fasting thing the last six weeks or so. Actually, I have been doing it on and off for the last ten years. It seems that now a whole bunch of people are catching on to it. I’d like to note I did it first. Maybe Malcolm Gladwell can feature me in his next Tipping Point book. Do you think there will be a sequel? I kid. I don’t care. But I will admit I was entertained by the book when I read it many years back. Whenever I look at penny loafers I think of that book. I guess it made an impact. But, onwards to my next digression.
I was looking in the refrigerator feeling really hungry. Some days of my intermittent fasting are easier than others. Today, my mind and my heart wanted more. I found a jar of crunchy spear pickles. Yum, I am serious. I love those things. And they are very low in calories. As I was reaching for them, I had this weird flashback to many, many years ago.
When I was younger I had this best friend who was tall and thin. She wanted to be a model. I had lost touch with her for a bit and then reconnected for a hot second. In that hot second I came to find out that she really wanted to be a model. So much so that she only ate pickles. I remember scrunching my nose when I heard that. Sure, us New Yorkers like pickles. But to solely subsist on that is a bit odd. But she was committed to remaining thin and she could fill up her stomach on pickles and not gain weight. I remember thinking that I really loved key lime pie. Yes, that was my first thought. And, there was no way I was going to give up key lime pie for a life of just pickles. I never followed in her footsteps.
Soon after, I lost touch with her again. And, I have yet to reconnect. Sadly I don’t believe that we ever will. Her name is too common for me to really get any traction finding her with a normal google search. Maybe I should see if there is a pickles Facebook page that she may be a member of. But as I crunched on my pickles I did wonder as to where she is and for how long she kept to a pickles-only diet.
It is amazing how one little moment of hunger took me so far back in time. As we move through life we have so many people touchpoints and sometimes those are extremely fleeting. I do wonder how many people we touch in life in one way or the other. And what is that cumulative effect?
Categories: Culture, food, identity, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
I have a friend who likes pickles so much that she gave them up for lent.
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Oh wow! That’s amazing
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Uh oh.. i was always the Teacher and the Student’s Pest in School punching my Hand into the Air At
Every Question asked.. well for me at Least.. Changing the World.. A SMiLe.. A Dance and even a Word That May count as Song is of paramount purpose for i was raised on Superman and Batman but way too shy to wear tights and bear guns and fists to save the World So as i stood back mostly serving Rental Shoes at a Military Bowling Center as A Government Employee watching the razor thin Election in Florida with Gore and Bush change the course of History i thought to myself if only i could find a way to significantly
Influence A Coming Generation of Youth to become more liberal in voting ways.. perhaps i could not only change the course of History but perhaps even
Save the World but i needed a plan a way to do it for Smiling Eyes Behind the Counter Serving Sanitized Rental shoes might not be enough..
Well.. To make a 6.7 Million Word Poem And 11,101 Mile Public Dance like a Trickster in my Trump State Metro Area in Florida stealthily in
Plain Sight shorter
i am
Currently
In Advance announcing
my Public Dance in 67 Months of Doing that along with the long long Poem Documented as such already saved the World in the Future.. hehe.. and hey if A Mild Mannered Shoe Server Behind a Bowling Alley Shoe Counter for a Couple of Decades who Graduated with 3 College Degrees Can Do this When assessed as Permanently Disabled With Bi-Polar And Autism Spectrum Condition too the Challenge is already out for everyone to do it for if someone like me can do it WHY NOT YOU TOO.. the reason i can announce i did this in Public and Trump Lovers not get mad is it is too late for them to
Stop me now Before the ‘Good Friday April Full Moon’ anyway cause the Task is already done.. ha! They’ve all seen the Dance with no F in Clue what i was up to And Ha! As Far as all these Words Go i am way too big and deep like the Ocean Blue to get to the Bottom of the Story.. the most interesting part of this Story is it is Real and i did it like a Ninja like an Invisible Man Like a Batman Dancer in the Night ‘they’ will never really see for all of
what i Did but me..
True Though the 6.7
Million Word
Poem
Documents
The Truth That it
Happened.. Hehe..
Saving the World doesn’t
Have to mean Blood Shed…
Loving SMiLes.. Dance and Song.. Yes.. Love.. is the only
Way
Lasting
That is
Humanly
Possible to
Save the Species of US..
True.. i really could use
Some Help already wore
Out 22 Pairs of Nike Shox
Shoes and if they wanna
Name a Shoe after me the proceeds will go to Poor
Immigrants or perhaps
Just an incentive to trade
Money for a Soul….
On top of that
Science already
Shows Moving
Meditation is
The Fountain of
Youth as
An Avenue
For A Flowing
Happy Heaven
Within that is
Contagious Like
A Love Flu too..
As i Continue to
Help Produce a
Generation of Hopers and Lovers Away From Fearers
And Haters.. ugh.. need some Help in the Deep South Gulf Coast Bible Belt
Tired of
Being
The
Only one
To Do this
Feels Like Forever
Eternally Now Now
In a Flower State Shaped
Like a Gun Florida with me Loaded in the PaNHandle Barrel
Spraying Bullets of
Loving Dance all over
This Place of
Heaven
Within..
HeHe.. For Sure..
It’s True though i
Did get some help
From people who
Inspired me along
the Way and did not
Kick me out of
Their Blogs or Stores
as hey.. We already know
Now That not only are all
Super Heroes Eccentric..
So are the Comic Book
Writers.. Real Or Fiction.. anyway.. the ‘Big Book’ is already out in Electronic Free Publish And Before you are recognized in the coming Movie I’ll make Sure it is Okay With
PsychologistMimi
And Others
For them to
Be Recognized
In the Movie for
Obviously
She (and others) is
Already a Mysterious
Inspiring Character Now
In the ‘Big Book’.. hehe..;)
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I was thinking this yesterday, having recently connected with a work colleague from 20 years ago. Then I started thinking about all the little interactions you have each day and how they can be a positive or negative influence – I consciously attempt to be kind even in my transitory encounters, and by the way the people light up, you can tell it makes an impact.
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