Are we afraid of real anything?

I am human and I can get caught up in scrolling, go through phases in which I think aesthetically improving myself will improve everything else, or figure spending money on a current craze may help in the end. To think that because everyone is doing it, it must be something I don’t want to miss out on or bad things will happen. I will lose all the retirement I have saved, my kid might not graduate from high school, I will die early and badly, I’ll never make anymore money if I don’t do and think like everyone else now. I’d better make sure I look right just like everyone else the internet public sees. I’d better make sure my family spends time doing the right things or my child’s childhood will be a waste. I’d better bend the knee to the gods of media in order to make sure I solidify my place in the internet, but not too much or else I’ll get haters. I’d better learn as much as I can about supplements and start taking them or else I will die too early and badly, and miss out on being a super beautiful 50 year old in a few years. I’d better get on it and embrace the fake and manufactured before I am left in the dust and I have to live tending chickens and goats and growing my own food on the margins instead of wanting to.

The wherewithal to knowing when it quit scrolling, rethink aesthetics, and have faith that good comes due is an adult skill. One skill my husband and I try to teach out child rather than worry about his time, social situation, or grades as much. I do wish more adults had this skill, or that they would teach it. Not to pat myself on the back even a bit, but it may have more to do with my generation and experience than anything. Being in the thick of self re-invention could play a part as well. Stepping back from work in which I was paid for my past experience and schooling but had my time and creativity controlled, I am stepping into another world. This new world asking for my expertise and creating content for masses is leading me to believe that either most people want to pay money for fake and easy rather than pay time and attention for authentic and lasting. Or that others are telling them they want to that kind of content.

If anyone thinks that the supplement industry has busted or is on its way towards being busted, I would have been in full agreement and celebration just a short time ago. For all the questions I have received lately, I was wrong and it is not. Same goes for questions regarding “bad foods” and “How many avocados do I need to eat to lose weight?” What?

I have been trained and continue to train myself on my value to real. Real food, real cooking, real health. The real that lasts longer than the prescription, supplementation taken, or super precise dieting. If we were designed to take in medicines and concentrated, laboratory produced non-food substances for our basic health and functioning, or eat ultra limited diets, we would actually be getting healthier. We would be more productive, happier, sleep better, and have a well functioning healthcare system that was not so financial strapped.

The wherewithal to know that real food, preferably plants, with diversity that we were actually designed to eat as the majority of our fuel and nourishment, is the most important thing we can put into our mouths and ingest. More important than any non-prescription supplement, and as important than our prescription medications.

Caveat, avacados are great. I love avacados. But I would seriously have problems if I ate too much of a good thing.