All for the sake of the Stomach!

21st March, 2003 - Friday:

It was my utter foolishness! I had gone without Lunch that afternoon, probably because I was a little worried about my Final Exams. And, after finishing to write my paper that day, I had a Veg Burger and some Cold Coffee. And then, for some reason, I decide to skip Dinner too. God knows why! So, what had I had that day?

1. 3 Cups of Tea.
2. 4 Slices of Bread (Breakfast)
3. 1 Veg Burger.
3. 1 Mug of Cold Coffee.
4. 1 Mug of Warm Milk (Dinner)

One may certainly feel that it was enough to sustain a Human Body for a Day. Well, that's not enough for me!

And that night, as expected, I grew hungry. Hungry beyond control. I drank lots of water. And as luck would have it, my stock of cookies and other snack was over too! I decided to try those Ayurvedic Cough Drops. If only I knew that they act as Appetizers!!

I did not have a phone in those days, and so I couldn't even call for food to be delivered at my doorstep. And the kind of relationship I shared with my landlady, I couldn't even turn to her at that hour of need. Poor thing, she had offered me Lunch that afternoon. But I just looked the other way!

I even tried to compromise with my Vegitarianism. Luckily, there was no animal around that time! Desperate for a morsel, I ran to the Balcony of my Paying Guest Accomodation, which was on the First Floor. I could see my Two-wheeler parked right across. Out of sheer hungry desperation, I decided to jump or climb down with a rope. (Bollywood had always been an overdoze with me!) But, I couldn't. I had another Exam the next day. It was too much of a risk. But my stomach was screaming at the same time!

At that moment a weird thought crossed my mind. I thought, if a girl like me who is comfortably well off, and probably facing such a crisis for the first time in her life, could act so desperately, (desperate enought to risk her limbs trying to jump off her balcony for food!), then imagine the millions of people who go without food everyday! Aren't their acts, in a way, justified? People steal, people kill. Is that all for the sake of Stomach?

The hunger in your belly can really make you do strange things. Why do we live? Why do we eat? Do we eat to live, or live to eat? Well, that night I did live to eat. And as I was thinking about all these things, I started chewing a few pieces of paper that were lying on my desk! The hunger in your tummy can make you act like a Donkey too!

It is all for the sake of stomach, NO DOUBT!