Friday, November 12, 2010

Healthy Body V Healthy Mind

Spent some time in a health food shop today. As I filled my basket with spinach fungus tea and gluten-free bisexual yogurt I asked myself a question, "What is point?"

I've been doing a lot of drinking lately. And some smoking. What is point of coming here and buying all this healthy shit when I constantly infiltrate my body with poisonous shit? Well, I'll tell thee what is point - balance. It's all about the B word.

To be totally healthy one would have to give up guilty pleasures. No booze, no fags, no drugs and no watching The Apprentice. If I did give up these and just drank tea and ate bisexual yogurt my body would no doubt benefit but what about my mind? My mind needs these things.

Spiritual gurus would call this a sickness. Society's sickness. I drink because my friend drinks. I smoke because my friend smokes. I watch The Apprentice because my friend watches The Apprentice. The spiritual gurus have a point but maybe risking a shorter life of joyful extremes (I feel good when drinking booze AND when drinking spinach fungus tea) and baffling inconsistencies (happily smoking one minute and cursing it the next) is just as valid as a longer life of sober and steady monotony? They should just make fags out of tofu and we'd all be happy.

NOTE TO MOTHER:
Don't worry. I'm not smoking a lot. Just after three pints or at bar mitzvahs.

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