Fasting

Day 2 of no food. It's painful, yes, but only at times. And I'm thinking about the millions of people in the world who suffer this emptiness, this growing dizziness, every single day.

It also occurs to me that I'm practicing an old religious custom, of fasting during Ramadan, for one's sins, I suppose. I don't believe in God, or religion, or original sin. But I do guess I feel that I've got plenty to atone for.

Fasting is a kind of cleansing, after all.