tis the season to be fasting

i felt a little bit guilty yesterday. for the catholics, ash wednesday meant to sacrifice, to fast, to skip meals, to eat less, to take no meat at all. and i was about to begin a task that i will do for the first time in my life... to be a conscious catholic this lenten season -- to follow what catholics normally do during this day--to fast. the priest advised to just take one full meal and eat less during the other meals. i was happy with that. so for breakfast, i ate egg sandwhich. for lunch, i ate a full meal of rice and chopseuy with chicken. therefore, dinner meant lesser food intake. i thought of eating fresh eggs or sardines only. that would suffice the hunger, i thought. so i went home. but it just so happen that i passed by aling lucing's sizzlers--known for its yummy sisig. with salivating pictures on its glass window, tell me--who am i refuse this craving and starving stomach? tell me! tell me!

after minutes of having second (guilty) thoughts, i end up going home with a supot of meal no. 2--sisig with chicken. i ate with gusto. and i loved it! but i felt guilty. so, to compromise my feeling of guilt, i vowed that next year, i shall continue my promise! oh well...