My story for today would be the saying that while an army marches on its stomach, you should eat to live and not live to eat.

An army marches on its stomach as human beings need food to live. We should eat sufficient to live and not overeat. If my purpose in life is to live to eat, then I would be eating so much to gain weight and probably suffer heath problems. Then, I wouldn’t live and that would be the end of all eating.

I used to ask my mother for second helpings of my favorite food. I would leave some food untouched on my plate, while requesting a second serving of whichever food I fancied.

Mother would look at me sternly and say, “You should learn to eat all foods for a balanced diet.”

Sometimes, she would remind me, “We eat to live so we shouldn’t enjoy one kind of food excessively.”

Related Reading:

Fifty Great Short Stories

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

American Short Story Masterpieces

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