The World of the Inside

Imagine if you will a world that is completely enclosed within your own.  Crafted by you and you alone; you are able to witness all events that take place inside of this world.  These enclosed worlds are known by many names, but the one I like to use is "terrarium". 

Terrariums have always fascinated me.  I loved being able to look through the glass walls of their boundaries and peer into a world much smaller and easier to understand than my own.  I suppose you could say I was looking for a sense of stability inside of this tiny enclosure.  A world that made sense, with each part on display... Yes, this was the ideal world.  But!  Such ideals are not commonplace in the world that you or I live in.  They exist only in the minds of those who wish them, and very few get to see their ideals come to reality.  And if they do, they may be much different than what the one that brought them into reality wished for...

Have you ever envied another being?  I most certainly have.  I hold envy for many beings with forms more perfect than my own, but the organism I would like to draw your attention to is one known as the Glass Frog.  Now, I do not often focus much of my attention on frogs, but this one is special.  It has a transparent underside, that shows all of its internal viscera.  Why do I bring this up?  Well you see, I have had a problem as of recently, and I do not know the cause.

This problem has persisted for a few weeks, and has caused me much suffering.  It exists within a world inside of my body, populated only by beings too minuscule to be seen by an unaided eye.  This world is that of the intestine.  An imperfect ideal, one that is far too impacted, and has far too much impact, on the world outside of it, and is infinitely complex; needing to be simplified to be understood.  This world has been treating me very poorly as of late, and my only guess to this behavior is that I have been treating it poorly as well.  I believe it may be due to my recent shift of intake, that which should be a net benefit for my being, but has caused strife in the world contained within me.

I have recently decided that I will go "cold turkey" on carbonated sugary drinks, known in Wisconsin as soda.  I believed it was having a negative impact on my body, and I chose to stop consuming it by force of will.  And I feel amazing!  Besides of course the problem mentioned above.  Did you know that your intestines are sort of like a community of bacteria?  If you constantly give them one sort of food, they will learn to feed off of that food, and vice versa.  I believe that the removal of the once extremely common resource for the beings inside of my "world" has caused much uproar in their ability to stay alive, and they are crying out to me, the one that encapsulates this world, to save them.  But, for the sake of the rest of my body, I must continue in my quest fueled by my will.