• kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I wish Indian food were cheap around here. We have a healthy number of Indian immigrants and several restaurants, but they’re pricey. Delicious, worth it, but not cheap. And come to think of it, not terribly healthy, at least the way I order.

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      The good, cheap places you kind of had to hear about from people in the know.

      There was one food truck on a university campus run by an amazing, nice guy from southern India. He gave you enough vegetarian, delicious food for two meals for the price of Big Mac (this was in the 1990s). He would give you food if you were broke. Sadly, he died pretty young from cancer, I think it was.

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          Personally, because it makes a lot of life better. I feel like shit when I eat like shit

          I’ve found my own version of the middle path that involves exercise, decent food, and going out drinking. I may not live as long as others or as well as some, but I live to live not just to optimize health or pleasure

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          I have always had that attitude.

          My best friend used to bitch at me for being so careful all the time when I was younger. “Bro, fucking just look at this snake! Quit being afraid of everything. Someone could run your ass over with a car on the walk back home and you’d bleed out wishing you had done something.”

          He died at 18 in a car accident.

          I mean, well, I always speak that attitude. I’m still not going around looking for danger. I do what I enjoy, which is modest by any standards, but if I wanted to eat nothing but ice cream and weigh 500lbs I would do just that.

          No matter what I do, I’ll die. No matter how much I loved or hated it, I won’t remember any of it.

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            “Don’t take life too seriously, nobody makes it out alive, anyway.”

            Versions of that have been attributed to various famous folks, and also versions have been in movies and other media.