Reminding myself to post; economy of body

My girlfriend deftly reminded me that I haven't been posting. So here I am again. It's very important the part of brain that translates ideas and crafts them into sentences, limbers up now and again.

As I approach the end of the day, I start to think about food. Not just any food mind you, but the wet soppy stuff, the kind of food you know someone's mom sweated over in the kitchen all day. Stew, soup, gravy, something really meaty and substantial. This is what I want now. This is living in the present is it not? Hahaha well eating food makes me think about the economy of body.

One of the most amazing things about my own machine - this mass that clings to my bones of a body - is that it seems to function quite flexibly. I can starve it, fatten it up, inject smoke, and/or do any such thing that will invoke an extreme reaction and quite obediently, it brings me back to a kind of general equilibrium. The analogy is like a trading system of agents, like the global economy we live in from day to day. Each major organ operates like a country, it takes its critical inputs, produces outputs, and trades with other organs in order to continue its life. Sometimes organs die. Sometimes economies collapse. But the self-regulatory manner in which a human body can restore itself back to health, or adapt to some kind of biological happenstance is rather amazing. It's hard to say how far one can take the analogy, but as an economy of body, for the most part it does a fairly consistent job. The sad thing though is that bodies do age and die, and surely, this is where the analogy with our global economy should stop. If I can.