What you need to know about natural fruits is this:
• They are not sweet, but sour, tangy or bitter
• They have seeds
• They have a pedicel, peduncle or apical bottom
• They are fibrous
• They are seasonal
• They are not easily spotted when on a tree. They are either black or green
• They are only ripe when they want to fall, so that their seeds can germinate for survival of the tree species
• They are never of the same shape, size or colour
Natural fruits are like this so that you don't eat them.
But if you eat them, you won't eat more than two because they will irritate your teeth, fill your teeth with strands of fibre, or numb your tongue.
Or, the seeds will give you constipation eg guavas.
The fruits don't want to be eaten, just the same way animals and humans fight hard not to lose their lives.
Fruits also want to survive.
However, what people eat today from the markets are not fruits.
They are eating poisonous genetically modified organisms masquerading as fruits.
That is why we call them "modern fruits."
Therefore, if you are suffering from a chronic disease, like HYPERTENSION, DIABETES, ULCERS, CANCER, ARTHRITIS, etc, or you are obese, stay away from modern fruits.
You will hear someone say,
"The doctor said we should eat fruits."
Which fruits?
WAKE UP.
#FoodFriday
Clubbing has to be the most overrated adult activity. You sacrifice your sleep and peace, spend ridiculous amounts on overpriced drinks, then waste the entire next day exhausted and hungover. What exactly is the appeal?
Turn around. Face the thing you've been avoiding. Face it once, properly, and it shrinks. It's not be as big as your mind has been billing it.
Just stop showing it your back. Stop running away. Deal with it. Deal with them as they come. Humans and situations... face them.
Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:
“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”
Steve Jobs explains why most people never get what they want
"I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help."
"most people don't get those experiences because they never ask."
"I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12 years old. his number was still in the phone book and he answered the phone himself."
"I said, hi, I'm Steve Jobs, I'm 12 years old, and I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have."
"he laughed and he gave me the spare parts to build this frequency counter."
"he got me a job that summer at Hewlett Packard putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters, and I was in heaven."
"I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called. I just asked."
"most people never pick up the phone and call. most people never ask."
"that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them."
"you've got to act, and you've got to be willing to fail."
"if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."
A reminder from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson:
“Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it's an activity.”
When you move into an apartment where people are silent, private and mind their own business,
Embrace the same culture,
Extend the same GRACE.
Don't move into an apartment and become the one who is noisy, chaotic, disrespectful, and belligerent.
The people you found living in that apartment are not silent and private so that your noise can thrive.
They are silent because they value their privacy.
Once you sign the terms of agreement with the landlord, adhere to them.
Respect your neighbours.
Or, move back to the noisy place you came from.
Respecting people is a valued trait.