Asceticism has a way of becoming routine. At some point, any exercise in restriction becomes plain old life as we know it. All the discipline it took to hold back goes to waste. We slowly regress to the mean of our old way of living. We're all tied up to cycles of abundance and scarcity, our fat times and lean times. Finding a way to live through both fat and lean is a challenge for everyone. Finding some way to change where the balance lies between the two is even harder.
"Whosoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished, should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past."
---Jorge Luís Borges
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| Borges wasn't much of a rice-and-beans guy, but the yin-yang thing with the white rice and black beans was too much fun. |
Arroz y Habas "Yin-Yang"
El Yin
Refried black beans
Green chile and sauteed onion
Spices
La Yang
White rice
Served with fake cheddar, corn tortillas and pico de gallo, alongside a dram of Red Breast Irish Whiskey. So much for asceticism.
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