Rocko402003’s Weblog

College students spend a great deal of time eating out in restaurants, probably more than most Americans do.  We live and thrive on fast food, and that nice sit down meal that we don’t have to prepare in a microwave that came from a bag or a freezer.  However, one thing that I’ve begun to realize more and more recently is that when someone goes out to eat, we no longer eat just enough to satisfy out appetites, we gorge ourselves in finger foods and deserts, to the point where our stomachs can’t take it, we feel like exploding, and end up swearing to never eat that much again.  I spoke some time ago about food merely becoming a commodity to the point where we use it as a form of competition.  It seems as if, though, it has become so much of a commodity that it’s existence and abundance means that we have to gorge ourselves consistently.

Have we really all become empty people who constantly commit what is considered to be one of the seven deadly sins, destined to live our lives out in gluttony?