This is a popular Haitian proverb that says ‘Sak vid pa kanpe’, which means an empty sack cannot stand. The “sack” in this proverb is reflective of a sack of flour. Just as the sack is kept upright by the flour inside, it suggests that having enough nourishment through food is essential for carrying out one's duties effectively. It also suggests that in order to function well or be successful, one needs to have the necessary resources, such as knowledge, experience, skills, or certain degree of material possessions. To put it in more simply, one can't function properly on an empty stomach. I learned this yesterday morning. I needed to fast for annual blood test. Normally it would be very easy: get up and walk to the medical lab closeby. But things have changed since the pandemic: not only has one to book for the test online to avoid a long wait, the lab close to us stopped doing testing all together this year. And to make it worse, I woke up just past 3:30am (Maowi's doing) and the booked testing time was 9:30am, it was a long 6+ hours to kill before I could eat anything: - 3:45am - 4am, fed Maowi and cleaned his litterbox - 4am - 6am, read a book and posted a couple comments in WXC blog - 6am - 6:40am, baked 2 weeks worth of home-made breakfast cereal for Hubby (see photo below) - 7am, all my brain functions stopped, all I could see and think was food: the wonderful smell from the baked cereal; food that I never noticed much before and showed up everywhere now but I couldn't eat them. I wished I had eaten more the night before; I wished I didn't go to washroom so my stomach wouldn't feel this empty; I didn't understand those religions which require fasting, but now I have better understanding the suffering and sacrifice those people endure. - 7:15am, I found a way to resolve it: I went back to sleep, with Maowi by my side. What a start of a day, and I don't wish it on any of you. Cheers and wish you all another enjoyable weekend!
learned from the survival competition games. Most promising
..winners were those found enough food.
But nutrition must be balanced. Even somone hunted a moose still kept loosing weight, only enough protein is not enough to maintain body function. Fat is also vital. Some had to quit the competition for excretion disorder due to lacking carbohydrate intaking. Those can't obtain enough food had to lay flat till forced to leave by starvation or won by beating other hungers-->none can keep upright without enough food.
What a start of a day, and I don't wish it on any of you. Cheers and wish you all another enjoyable weekend!
..winners were those found enough food.
But nutrition must be balanced. Even somone hunted a moose still kept loosing weight, only enough protein is not enough to maintain body function. Fat is also vital. Some had to quit the competition for excretion disorder due to lacking carbohydrate intaking.
Those can't obtain enough food had to lay flat till forced to leave by starvation or won by beating other hungers-->none can keep upright without enough food.