How Dare I Say I'm Starving!

Today I heard a report on how starvation is worse then ever in Haiti. I started to think about how daily I made the comment "I'm starving." The reality is I have no concept of what that means or feels like. My minor hunger pangs are not even a glimpse of what a child who has gone a week without food feels like. My suspicion is most in this country have never felt what we have made so cliche'. My thoughts have changed so much about food this last year and my motto has been "food is fuel not comfort" but for someone who is truly starving it is probably fuel and comfort. I want to continue to evaluate what and why I am eating, but to also know I am never starving.