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Food
100% necessary for the survival of all living organisms.
The focus of obssession for those who suffer with anorexia or bulimia.
The focus of obssession for those trying to compete with the Western society ideal of beauty.
It is my best friend and worst enemy.
I need it in excess when I'm sad or happy. When I'm nervous or stressed, I can't even look at it.
Why is it that we have to pay for something so vital for our survival? We don't have to buy oxygen or emotional love. Perhaps it's because food, of all things necessary, is the only thing that is concrete and can be controlled. Perhaps, as Daniel Quinn so eloquently theorized, putting food under "lock and key" is the only way to control the masses. As living beings, what wouldn't we do to alleviate hunger?