“I hope it rains today.” Eric is worried, thinking about his new intrepid thirst for apple cider that he enjoys with medicinal herbs everyday. The fruit trees and herbs in Eric’s backyard need rain for nourishment to grow plentiful enough for him to quench his daily thirst, caring for his own mental nourishment.
Along with the cycle of energy there is the cycle of thirst in various stages of consumption, from empty sky to empty bladder, that poses a threat to his nourishment. For almost every living thing the cycle of thirst starts with exhaustive survival instincts and works towards the feeling of being pleasantly quenched but for Eric the quenching of thirst is what has kept him alive for all these years. The will to be miserable another day. How he lives depends on his will power over gluttony and gluttony versus fasting before killing himself with the excessive will to survive. Fasting is easy for him, to take a regiment of cider and herb from his own backyard and making it a game of survival every single day. On the contrary, quenching his thirst from the cycle of energy voluntarily but with an instinctual need for nourishment that is never enough makes Eric a candidate to get the most out of life and to cheat death by not giving into his thirst for alcohol.
“I hope it rains again today.” Eric is confident, thinking about his new intrepid thirst for apple cider that he enjoys with medicinal herbs everyday.
Francis Erich McElroy 