WHO SAID ?!?!?

I recall back when I was growing up. OK, I am still growing up. I should start out with back when I was very young. Oops, very young. Depends on how you look at it. Shall I say back when I was 12 ish, I was told that it was a sin to eat meat on Friday's. At this age I was old enough to pack my own lunch. 

 So I started my practice of camouflaging my sandwich so no one could tell I had smuggled my bologna sandwich on just about every Friday at St. Finbar's Catholic School. I felt I had a good reason not to ignore the no meat rule. The smell of tuna after 4 hours in my lunch pail would gag anyone.

But one day while I arrived at school just hopping of the city bus, I heard the news. 

As of today it is no longer a sin to eat meat on Friday. I stopped dead in my tracks. 

What!!! Does this mean all of those Fridays while I munched on my bologna sandwich, smothered in mayonnaise and surrounded by white bread , sinning with every bite was  now null and void? Everything is cool now? I can go ahead and eat my once was a smuggled in contraband into the school yard lunch.? No more a sin?

This was , I believe , my first awakening. The moment of a huge realization  But was proceeded by a huge question. Who is making up these rules any way? Who said? Who said it was a sin last week to eat the evil bologna  in the first place? Frankly , as I look back on this choice of lunch I am surprised that  I am as healthy as I am today. No offense  Oscar. 

This is when I began my journey of self discover. I was not living my life just in resistance to the worlds rules any longer. Well not as much . But at that moment  I realized I can make my own rules. Look out world. The who said was changing to me said.

I can decide whether or not it is all right to eat meat on Friday. Whether I  am old or young. How I feel at any moment. It is a wake up call . OK, so if I am deciding and things do not go as I thought they might, this also meant I am the ONE.  Yes indeed . 

I am. 

I am happy to be me.

Period.

Thanks Ya'll

OOPS. Living in the south. 

ALOHA

I decide.

Namaste

Madonna Machado

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