Absolutely! I've been a little quiet here, of late, but things have been moving along. As it happens, I've given up meat! I say given up, rather, not focussing upon.

I've not got veg*an, far from it. I've stated often that paleo living can easily be done on fish alone. Growing bored of meat, I decided to put my life where my mouth is and ... eat shell/fish.

I live on an island where we are surrounded by water. We have a bountiful sea all around and that's what I am going to live primarily on.

I found meat required planning to make it interesting. Yes, fillet steak needs nothing more than itself to be interesting, but I am a man of only reasonable means, and fillet steak is not an affordable daily thing. That planning required an obsessive focus. The nth degree to make an really fly meal, every time, out of something which is actually just muscle.

I've lived for long periods of my life where fish was my primary protein and I think I've always been happiest like that. I can freestyle more with fish - just pick some up and let the imaginative side of my creativity flourish. Meat seemed to douse that.

So, here, nerga was both the bane and the release of my culinary creativity - the bane, intense focus and near obsessive rigidity; the release, the freedom to just eat and let my imagination go. I can do this with fish.

Wish me well ...

I will still be eating meat, every so often, like when we go out ... or when I go to that neat restaurant in town that serves a very generously side piece of fillet steak on a volcanic rock, just seared and ready for me to "cook" exactly how I like it ... which is, take it off the slab and eat it raw 🙂 Actually, I like a raw slice and just sear for the briefest second one side, then the other, then eat while it's still cooking - this is a very different sensation.

So, yes, I hope this little tale tells of both the positive and negative side of nerga. Needless complication can easily occur by inflexible focus and obsession. Release yourself by simply walking away from that which binds you up and walk in freedom in something that releases your imagination and creativity.