you Are what you Eat

Ever heard of the saying, "You are what you eat"?

Well, I experienced it personally. There was a birthday party at a Chinese restaurant on Deepavali day, an aunt of mine turned 70. During the feast I ate tiger prawns which I am allergic to, ate quite a lot of prawns in fact. And now here I am behaving like a monkey with flees all over its body. The itch is killing me and the rashes on my body look horrible and red, like the prawns.
You are what you eat. Hahaha....
I ate prawns, now my skin turns red.

Haha, sorry i was lying. The prawns didn't look like tiger prawns, actually I took liquor which I happen to be allergic to also.
Sorry okay? Did not lie about the rash at least.


Anyway, you really are what you eat. I was wondering one day, what we eat can be a metaphor for the things we watch and listen to. Whatever "input" can be poetically called what we eat, alright?

Our actions and speech are very much affected by what goes into our head through listening, watching, reading and maybe even taste. What we do or say reflects our inner being. Out of the overflowing of the heart the mouth speaks. Agree? For example, if a person watches pornography, it affects his mind which in turn affects the way he speaks or does things subconsciously, I believe.
Our eyes are a door to our soul. What they see can have long term effects on a person, since human beings think in pictures. Many images can somehow stay in our minds though we do not will ourselves to remember.

What we hear also plays a part in what we say things and how we say them. Children tend to speak like their parents or whoever's voice they listen to most often. Teenagers might start to speak vulgarly when they mix with the wrong company. Next, the effect of reading on writing may be somewhat similar.

You are what you eat.
How are you today? How are you living, speaking and acting?
The books and magazines you read, movies and TV programmes you watched and the songs you listened to plays a part in how are you today.

If you understand that you are what you eat, I guess you would know how to become a better person.


Hurting people hurt people.
Are you hurting the people around you or anybody else, whether or not intentionally? Perhaps other people whom you had been hurt by in the past are the culprit. However you have a part to play in dealing with your hurts. Stop the chain reaction!