I don’t mean hungry in the sense of driven or ambitious or desirous of some outcome. I mean physically in need of calories and uncomfortable because of it. When have you been hungriest? Literally. For me, a few moments come to mind immediately. Once after working an extra long closing shift at Baskin & Robbins (my first job ever), I was exceptionally hungry and stopped at McDonald’s on my way home and it was GLORIOUS. Glorious twenty times — one for each nugget. Another time, in high school after a summer water polo tournament, my team stopped at a diner before the long ride home. Food took about an hour to hit our tables and I was ravenous and angry by the time it came. Another time, in Haiti right after the 2010 earthquake I’d spent the entire day unloading and coordinating the receiving end of eight, 40-foot shipping containers. By the early evening I was very weak and shuffling back to my tent when my friend Gena (who has called Haiti her home for about 20 years now) took me by the arm and sat me in front of a steak(!) from her native Ireland that she’d been saving in the freezer. These are my moments of intense hunger. But they’re few and far between. And I remember them almost as much for the happy, food-filled endings as I do for the hunger pains themselves. It’s a TERRIBLE thing to be hungry. Truly horrible. I think it’s important for us, the well-fed, to remember that hunger is a daily reality for many.

Source: WBQ Original

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