Gluttony

gluttony
Originally uploaded by Aaron Edwards

Food is good. Everything about food is good. Every time I see food I can't help myself, I have to devour it. If I have a plate of food in front of me, I have to finish everything on the plate. If I don’t finish I’ll feel bad, because I’ll feel like I'm wasting food, and I’ll say to myself, “ eat the food because, there’s people in other parts of the world who don’t have food.” So, I tell myself to eat everything on the plate. Even when I am already full, I force myself to finish everything on the plate. I rarely leave food on my plate. On the few occasion that I didn’t finish everything was because I really didn’t like the food or because some form of health conscious miraculously came over me. When I’m finish with my plate I often feel selfish, because I have to have what I like, even if I don’t need it and only care about satisfying my pleasure.

Gluttony or food addiction is hard to come off of. Unlike recovered drug addicts, that are never confronted with the drug daily, once the addiction is off. A food addict is confronted with the drug everyday because, they have to consume food to survey, yet constantly reminding themselves while eating to stop when full. A lot of people are guilty of over eating, but are afraid to admit it because, society seems to accept a drug addict instead of a food addict. Any addiction is horrible, and I feel sympathy for whoever is an addict.