fasting in the midst of famine

If you find yourself in the middle of a famine, you may try several courses of actions.

You could try to change the circumstances. Move somewhere with more plentiful food. This is logical, but may not always be an option.

You might then resort to taking up your quarrel with the gods, pounding the table and waving your fist and pouring your anger out into nothingness.

Or you could, paradoxically, decide to take up fasting. Like the opposite of swinging your fist at the sky—instead of spending your energy to try to change the unchangeable, accept the unchangeable as if it had been your own choice all along.

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