EATING Part 23 Rice & Farming

RICE

In this blog, i am looking at rice - forgiving myself for seeing it as a plant that i can eat only and my lack of interest in learning about how it is being grown, writing commitments to open the door for correction

Forgiving Myself

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to believe that what is important is i have rice on the table when i am hungry and that it is not important to learn about how it is being grown

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to believe that  all i need to do is work to get the money to buy rice in the store so that i can cook it

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to believe that farming is only about growing the food items that command a good price in the store for profit - to make money from growing it

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to believe that farming is about growing the food items that i like the taste of

Commitments

When and as i see myself believing that what is important is i have rice on the table when i am hungry, i stop - i breathe. I realize that rice is a part of the whole - that is life, so learning about how it is being grown is a commonsense thing to do

I commit myself to learn about how rice is being grown - the amount of water it needs to grow, & the kind of soil it grows in