Dear LPG

I have always been interested in the many sayings and proverbs we have heard. We often need to understand where they originated or what they mean. I am sure many have heard the age-old adage, ‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison.’ 

The internet informs that, on its way to popularity, a Roman philosopher, Titus Lucretius, first used poison in the first century BC. It was also included in the autobiography of an English Composer, Thomas Whythorne, in 1567. This leaves me wondering how often poison was used and precisely for what purpose back in the day. Most will agree that the wording is much more extreme than the way we accept the meaning we associate with it these days.  

One website I found on the Internet interprets it as ‘Everything is relative—what one person values, another may think worthless.’ Despite the actual wording of the phrase, we don’t consider the relationship between poison, illness, and death.

Now and then, we all discover something that other people do or like which appears a bit odd, peculiar or just plain weird, but the problem is that human nature dictates that we talk about it, and as we get older, when we do, we are thought a bit odd.   Perhaps another way of saying it is, ‘one person’s passion is another person’s ridiculous notion.  Sometimes, we are not very tolerant.

I have been on both ends of many such predicaments.  I have been the person who tries to look interested while it is all explained before going off quietly to tell someone else how ridiculous I think it all is, or who laughs outright before thinking about how that will affect the person pouring their heart out to me in expectation. However, as we get older, we become a bit more sensitive to being that cruel.  

I have also been the person who wants to spread the news of something I have discovered. I want to tell the rest of the world who has not heard about it yet (well, at least my friends), but I find myself reluctant to share for fear of the same ridicule I mentioned earlier. 

I have recently found something that works for me and is suitable for others my age. I know a few will have some knowledge of it, but I fear that many may think I am odd for indulging at my age. So, I have decided to share it with a larger anonymous audience: you.

I have learnt a lot from the internet, and recently, I learned a few Qi Gong exercises and took advantage of some online instruction. I am unsure about all the details, and I must admit that I first thought it all a bit silly, too. But all I can say is, before you write it all off as unbelievable, have a go (you can even do it sitting down) … 

AH, Ladywell. 

AH offers what she learned about Meat and Poison.

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… and a little about her weird passion…

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