![]() ![]() We hear the terms used loosely, almost interchangeably Bouillabaisse, Cioppino, Zuupe Di Pesce. So, as we were saying at the top of the page at my friend’s birthday party they served a wonderful fish soup. You remember what Don Michael Corleone said to Frank Pentangeli (Frankie 5 Angels) in The Godfather, Part 2, Scene 10, “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”. You separate yourself from it and ignore it. You become obsessed with learning all there is to know about it. You dream of eating a candy bar because you feel like eating a candy bar. You want to show everyone you can do anything they can do, despite diabetes. You question why it has attached itself to you. You become emotionally attached, and sometimes the emotions fly. How do you live a life and carry diabetes in your pocket everywhere you go. Then, of course, there is the psychological wavelength of diabetes. To take great liberty from the scholarly and academic bent of such profound philosophy, we can conjure up an interpretation of diabetes being quite metaphysical with its strong declaration of insulin imbalance and continuing trials and exploration to achieve order and harmony in the universe of blood glucose balance, that effects the whole, the universe of the body. ![]() It is the science of universal order, seeking to explain the nature of being and reality. When faced with whether or not to adhere to the rules, how to follow them and to what degree, we sway into the philosophy and the metaphysics of diabetes.Īccording to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Metaphysics is that branch of philosophy which treats of first principles. ![]() There’s no blazing scarlet letter “D” to wear. It’s only you and that Snickers bar on the table. It can be a simple thing, after all, it’s only you and your diabetes. But people have the power to make choices. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 5-year-old child with type 1 or a 75 year old senior with type 2. I declared my own brand of philosophy regarding diabetes some 25-30 years ago, when I accepted diabetes as an uninvited visitor to treat as friend, with respect and consideration at all times, or suffer dire consequences.īeing diagnosed with diabetes is something that changes one’s life by virtue of the fact that it makes demands on lifestyle. On the way home I thought about the incident and how frustrating it was to witness 2 people endangering their bodily health by closing their minds. The torture was that any attempt on my part to talk rationally about diabetes and healthy lifestyle had no place here. Oh boy! I was trapped and It was torturous. I sat at my friend’s birthday dinner sandwiched between a non-compliant overweight type 2 who emptied the breadbasket twice, dipping voraciously into the fabulous fish soup, and, an emotionally overindulged self-proclaimed type “1 ½” who handed the waiter a neatly typed list of his food allergies. I had worked it out on my own, and succeeded! I did though have slight cause for concern as I was constantly aware, during the construction process, that I was talking out loud as I discussed with myself each stage of the construction.A Perfectly Baked Apple All About Philosophy And Fish Soup After the initial feeling of annoyance, a wave of satisfaction washed over me. Unfolding it, the instructions floated out gently across the veranda floor and settled on the terracotta tiles. Fortified with a lovely cup of warm tea, I finally came to putting the heavy plastic cover over the frame. Starting with the roof, I worked along until I had completed one side, including the inbuilt table, then began the second long side. There were many different options to choose from and here it felt as if I was in a virtual reality training exercise. I felt I was doing a brain training exercise as I worked through, joining all the poles with the correct plastic connectors. There were hundreds of parts, but I decided to be logical and follow the photograph and managed to put almost all of it together. I was wet and cold and feeling marginally miserable as the day was so cold and grey, but I was determined to press on as the recently compiled list of jobs to do in the garden runs to two pages. I tipped out all the contents and realised that the instructions were missing. The box had been opened and re-sealed, so I was taking a chance on all the bits being in it. ![]()
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