I tried going without breakfast today, just to get the feel of it, as I know many people who can skip breakfast. Sadly, I am not one of those and firmly believe in having breakfast to jumpstart the day, so to speak. Though I managed to survive till 12(hot milo doesn't count, does it), I constantly thought of food and was listless and lacked energy and my stomach was happily drumming away. Lesson no 1, I can't go without breakfast, it makes me overeat at lunch because I was super ravenous

The night was spent slacking away as that is what I have been doing most days, drained of energy and incapable of doing anything else other than reading novels, blogging,playing with my new phone....There are 101 things to be done, eg packing my room, wrapping xmas presents....Will get down to it soon.

Anyway, I came across this blog which I found deeply poignant and meaningful...its about understanding and facing death. This woman who has a tumour in her neck who is on the verge of death blogged everyday till the day she died. She faced death bravely and accepted it without hysterics, and is undoubtedly a very brave woman. Visit her blog at http://www.dyingis.blogspot.com
An excerpt from her blog: Every living thing strives to stay alive. And death is all the more frightening when you have to watch it unfold before yourself. But you achieve absolutely nothing by refusing to acknowledge it. You do not comfort me with your assurance that I won't die, because escaping death is not what I'm longing for. What I'm longing for is for you to understand what death is. Look it in the eye and see it for what it is. And then you'll see that understanding death is the only one and true liberation... That paragraph is so so true, everybody fights to stay alive in every sense of the word and sometimes compromises their moral values in the rat race, sacrificing things that matter the most, like their loved ones, in the desperate bid to achieve something that is so tangible. Is it worth it? I am personally not afraid of dying, whats there to be afraid of? What I am afraid of is to leave a loved one behind. The pain of losing a loved one is terrible, I have not experienced it before and have no wish to experience it anytime soon. But death is inevitable, we have to face and acknowledge it. What is most important to let our loved ones know of our care and concern for them.....