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When I was in High School and I walked through the street I noticed something wonderful about the way our bodies are made.

I would breathe in through my nose and breathe out which is mundane yet it's the way I did it that calmed me.

Some people have written about breathing in different ways as a form of meditation yet even regular breathing can be turned into that. When we breathe we do it subconsciously. Even so it's possible for a person to be conscious about their breath if they don't have a lot on their mind and it removes your thoughts about problems. While you breathe in you think to yourself "I'm breathing in. [Physically[" While you breathe out you think "I'm breathing out. [Physically]" I had to write it specifically this way because if you were to write the thought with words "I'm taking a breathe in and out" that you start thinking about numbers and math. It should be done as a thought that every breathe is the same during regular breathing that you breathe in and out. I don't really know how to explain it but it helped me deal with problems caused by other people that I'm not responsible for. It even helped me lower physical pain after it passed in the body and went in the brain as a form of healing the brain meaning preventing it from becoming weaker. It doesn't remove a problem and regardless of that you think less about the problem for a while and that helps you solve the problem later. Sometimes people feel that way when they're upset. They focus on their breath. This is entirely different. During the cold seasons and winter it helped me greatly. Not so much during summer.

Post Scriptum: After a sip of coffee the best way I can explain it is: "I'm breathing in [physically] and then "I'm breathing out [physically] and each time after.. the same words and the word "Again" "I'm breathing in [physically] again." "I'm breathing out [physically] again." And you keep doing that. Then I opened the door to my apartment and met my parents. Laid down for a bit and did homework and listened to music.

Post Post Scriptum: Sometimes while I did this I added another thought. That I'm doing it while [physically] walking as the steps pass on the sidewalk. It's very difficult to explain. It may be very easy to explain. I'm not really sure which.

Post Post Post Scriptum: There was an ultimate purpose behind this which I felt as I did it every day during the walk to school and back and all the other places that I've walked to that will bring joy to everyone. "I'm happy that I'm alive and I want to live long."

Before I came to the US while I was young I spoke with a man who walk in our apartment whom was friends with my father. I only said one thing. "Mislish li che polucia vodi do bednota?" [Do you think that pollution leads to poverty?]

Unfortunately: This is true.

Maslow wrote a hierarchy. Yet during that time the earth was cleaner so he may have felt he did not need to write the most basic thing we need for our survival. Clean air.

There are ways to make things better. There's two types of heating which I only know how to say in Bulgarian language. I'm not sure which one is which however with one of them: Air goes through machinery and becomes hot. It makes people stuffy when breathing it in. The other is not as popular however it heats a room in a way that you feel better while staying in it.

It uses a bit more electricity or fuel; steam yet many years ago people would ventilate while using heating because it removed air. I think it's wasteful. When I was a teenager I went to a dentist who's name will not be written for privacy reasons and we spoke. Later on she had the better version of a heater, not electric installed in the waiting room. It felt much better during my appointment. It was fairly small and short but it was like the little engine that could.

P.S. In Maslow's hierarchy he does in fact say we need air yet does not discuss air quality. He may have written it in a subtle way. I really don't know.

Post Post Scriptum: During my appointment I spoke with my mother in Bulgarian language about the heater. There was another person in the room probably from Europe because he understood the words partially. Later on when I tried to select her as my dentist under a different insurance the office told me that she's full.

Post Post Post Scriptum: As I explained it I told her that sometimes words in one langauge when I try to turn them into an english word may be way off and that all I know from my father is that with one type of heating air goes through something and becomes hot. And the other type is through touch. The last words I said to her were: "Figure it out."

Post Post Post Post Scriptum: The last and final thing I want to say is that reloading my posts four times in a row is annoying and I apologize yet I should explain the reason for recommending this heater to my dentist. She's a dentist and people have to keep their mouth open while breathing through their nose during dental work done. If they don't have enough oxygen while waiting they may try to breathe through their mouth because they don't have enough air. And their mouth has fluids and debris in it so if she uses this heater she may have more clients and might even be able to make more money through it. A teenager does not have much experience in the world but similar to a younger person we have a very precise way of thinking.

I was walking outside today. A homeless person asks me to buy them something and I have no money. My mother and I went to costco and in the 90s 100 dollars could feed a family of three. That price has raised to 300 for a family of two. My social security is done so I asked him if he smokes because he may become aggresive and gave him the last cigarillo in my pocket. When something is newer people don't know how to think. I made him promise that he will quit smoking.

I've done research on the internet. Inflation has risen 200% total during the last 20 years. And yet I go outside. I remember that I bought chips for 25 cents and now that same chips is 2.50. That's 1000% increase in price.

I think we have to do something about inflation. When I was a child I saw a lawyer. A successful person speaking with a group of friends on the train. Later on while walking home from school I saw his office on the sidewalk. He was rich. 15 years passed and I saw the same person on the train saying "things have not gone well for me and I need spare change."

As inflation rises my mother told me that paychecks chase it. This means that exponentially more people can't afford rent and eventually the ability to buy consumable things even food. And I'm upset. Each time my family and I see a person who's in pain there have been times when I've thought in the future that may be us. At least my mother's a great engineer and brings home the bread.

We have to do something. If there are less people working there's even more inflation because we're producing less.

In all honesty I felt horrible because I don't have any money left to buy him something inexpensive that could feed him.

Bulgaria during my life has been democratic. So I spoke with my father about the economy there during childhood.

The last thing I want to say is that this post may seem depressing yet I've asked my father one thing when I was a child in Bulgaria. "If more is invested in a poor person who doesn't have much do you think that they would be able to compete in the same career more than someone who's lived a better life?" He stared at me and said nothing.

I can think of a perfect explanation. A person who's from a family that arrived and made money in a better country such as the US. Their family was originally poor. They made a lot of money. Their children are well off so they do something ridiculous like make a porno video. Then their family disowns them. I don't want to use the name of a person because that might be innapropriate yet I can think of one woman where this has happened.

Another person is homeless. Later on they recover. They even have their own show on television. A therapist. Because they were thinking about what they need to do to succeed.

The last thing I told my father back in Bulgaria was in the following in our language. "We're in a race to succeed. If you give a young person too much.. they stop running."

A short while later we started speaking about animals because he taught me about evolution. I came to the theory that there is no pigeon that has not found food during its life. When people feed them bread crumbs they lose their survival instincts. "I guess I could say the same thing about a child and money. A mother pigeon feeds their young and so does a family of people. Yet they don't give them money."

I wouldn't say there were a problem if there's none at all and I don't mean to cause one. It's just a memory and an interpretation. It's also possible that aside from inflation different foods rose in price differently because of the amount that was being sold due to supply and demand.

Please don't harm me over this post. In a country with freedom either all memories should be accepted when shared or none of them.

P.S. Because he's kind he sometimes gave me money. It was very little so that I would be conscious what I buy with it. And when I met a girl from the phillipines in school and we shared that fruit snacks and coca cola it was the greatest memory of my life. Sometimes even food that a young person buys has use. The welchs fruit snacks were difficult to open so I strained my wrists and hands to do so. When a young person does that their wrists and hands become exponentially stronger because they used them with strength. Maybe they can use their hands to work longer?

Copyright C. Mitko Rouynekov 10/9/2024

Post post scriptum:

As I mentioned in my book that I wrote in high school which I self-censored and kept subtle. I drank coffee mixed with quinine. Sometimes a drink that gives intelligence and dictatorial qualities does not mean dictator. A large part of me is still normal regardless of my confidence. At the moment -I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

I would like to help people if I can.

I thought I would re-write this since I have deleted the post yesterday.

When I was young me and my father made alkaline water. This is nothing new and it has existed since hundreds of years ago. Yet I thought of something during that time.

He explained to me how our digestive system works and I asked if lemon juice is similar because it's an acid if we could use it to study our anatomy by putting it in fluids and foods in a sealed bottle or dish.

We would wait for a few days. As an acid digests something or lemon juice in water eats the water metaphorically speaking -the acid in it is gone after a while. The combination of both things turns water into something else.

We left a bottle of water in the fridge with lemon juice in it, sealed and waited a few days for the lemon to do its work.

When we took the bottle of water out of the fridge he and I drank some. Surprisingly it was alkaline water.

I'd imagine when our bodies digest food it becomes alkaline as well. A part of it is waste and another part which is also a base goes somewhere and gets turned into new stomach acid.

We got into a discussion on studying food through observing nature around us. What do different animals eat. Are we able to analyze the chemical composition of its food and find something similar that we eat. Maybe it gives us better reflexes or makes us stronger.

What if we could use similar things that are found in our body to study what it does to the food we eat and the fluids that we drink.

"What would happen if we left coffee in a sealed bottle with lemon juice in it and waited a few days. What if we left alcohol with lemon juice in it so as the acid does its job we can send the fluid (or food) to a lab for analysis and understand what its doing to our bodies."

As I've studied in physics.. acidic foods are best for our bodies. I find it strange because they become base in the body. I don't really think a base could become acidic in the stomach.

A few days passed. We tried the same thing with bottled water and a lot more lemon juice and waited one week. The water was even more alkaline than before.

I don't have much knowledge in the medical field. I don't think I would become a good nutritionist either. I used my creativity as a child while learning about the world through my father; my teacher about life.

He had a difficult life yet sometimes he tried to do the best for me.

At one point we had a conversation. "Sometimes when we speak we don't accomplish much and yet sometimes when we have a discussion you never cease to amaze me."

Lemon juice is not the same ph as stomach acid. It could barely be called similar to stomach acid in fact yet it may helps us a little to study the composition of our bodies.

The last thing I told him before he told me this is "Here's how I think. We have a balanced diet like you said dad. Yet animals don't. If they're repeatedly eating the same exact food throughout every season or nearly every season we can see what that food does to our bodies by studying theirs because they only ate that the whole time."

I feel that even though I was young because he had not hit me yet this may be one of my greatest accomplishments.

If you want to make great things in the world you should ask a young person what they think.

Post scriptum: The last thing I can say is that while we were speaking I learned that a lot of fruid is acidic. My belly is a bit bloated. I had lost weight in high school but I never managed to tighten my ab muscles. Yet even people with weak abs sometimes have a good physique. And they're eating a lot. They mostly eat fruit which doesn't fill you up yet turns into a base in the stomach and they have no bloating.

Post post scriptum: The last thing I told him which would be my reasoning for this is that acidic fruit through becoming a base makes more stomach acid as it goes in another organ and that keeps you regular while giving you energy and boosting your metabolism.

I recently ate kumquats. They're a minature orange with an edible peel. Even though it only lasted half an hour I felt like I had more energy through the large amount of vitamin c and if a person pairs it with protein they would become physically stronger if they move their body a lot.

Copyright C. Mitko Rouynekov (Dimitar) 10/7/2024

When I was young my father and I would buy food from costco and other places where we could afford it. We were poor and I guess right now my family is average yet I noticed something wrong with two different foods that many stores sell.

The first is bread. A baguette is phenomenal quality. No complaints. Yet so many stores have faulty packaging. People hold it at the time. It falls through the bag and lands on the floor. Costco is the same and so are many bakerys.

The second is ham. When something is newer people don't know how to think because they aren't used to it. They need more time to catch up to something else. There is a reason the stores from an older time had ham covered in thin rope packaging. This ham had a crust after it was baked. A thick crust. Like a lemon peel. Yet the ham in stores that follows this asthetic is raw and doesn't have a cover. It has a handle yet most people pick it up the way we take any other products. By holding it at the bottom. The thin wire mesh moves and cuts the tinfoil opening the ham. Then after you bring it home it spoils very quickly.

When I was young before I came to the US my grandmother told me that you should never throw away food and I think every country values food regardless of any differences.

I personally don't like meat though I need it to build a better body. If it were up to me I would just eat fruit and vegetables all day. Yet for our average finances even though it seems to my mother that we're buying something expensive for 20 dollars this is a staple. Meat fills you up. If a person eats just bread and butter they feel hungry in two hours. If you eat a large slice of ham you feel full for nearly half a day. There was this company that had a lottery for someone to have a 20 dollar lunch. A large ham or maybe two can feed one person for a month and that's only 40 dollars in total. It has tons of calories and protein. Bread -I don't think this is a major issue. As for ham: The company that provides it could make better packaging.

We went to costco today. Somewhere around the time I was a teenager my father had a problem with his ham opening from the thin wire mesh opening the tin foil when he picked it up. He raised his finger a week later and said another person who had clipped his nails had the same problem.

This ham is well made but people have to think a lot to buy it. And that's why it's losing money. It has a handle where the wire mesh is tied yet this handle is abbrasive when someone picks it up. People hold it like a soccer ball then place it in their cart. I'd imagine many decades ago things were simple. Many years have passed since then. We've developed more science and technology but our lives are too full to remember things that seem insignificant such as a special way to carry a ham.

The same thing happened to me and we had not brought enough money so I went back and tried to explain it. I even said that I don't want to get in an arguement so I'd like to just pay for the ham. Unfortunately someone had bought it. I tried to explain. Unfortunately the words may have come out muddy.

When something is newer people don't know how to think because they aren't used to it. They need more time to catch up to something that's older. I'm not certain yet I think maybe a person whom is much older than me could remember the packaging that bread was in when they purchased it during their youth and bring back that packaging. We need to be conscious about what we do as a society so that more people can eat and less food is wasted.

For the quality of the food that we've brought for nearly two decades anywhere in the US I can only say phenomenal. Superior quality. I think the packaging could be made better for these two foods. I've also noticed that because of this many people have stopped buying it from there and other stores.

I don't want to cause problems and I just want to be heard.

Post Scriptum:

Multiple times when I was on vacation in Bulgaria during summer break my aunt and I would buy bread. I think maybe 7 times she picked it up by the tip of the plastic and yep.. you guessed it. The bread fell right through while we were still in the store. I actually laughed nervously out of shock the first time because we use a bit thicker plastic and it happened. If I remember correctly it was dobrush bread which is the most expensive one for our standards.

Post post scriptum:

In the 90s when my family and I walked outside most people brought food for the day. We have more money now in Bulgaria and people there buy larger quantities. We have smartphones and faster computers. It seems many people have shut theirselves in and buy food for a month so that they don't have to go outside again. It's strange how things change as Charlie Chaplin said.

I've decided to stop speaking about eye movement technology. I understand if it's an illegal topic even though it's been 15 years since it was made.

I shouldn't have drank nettle tea in Bulgaria and the words come out muddy.

I spoke about it with two police officers recently. I'm not sure what they heard.

There's one thing I'm unable to understand. When someone is kicked there how are they able to walk around or speak?

P.S. For some reason I feel like I'm being kept in a loop. I guess that's legal.

When I was young my father and I spoke about coffee and what he does to make the taste better. I asked him if there are different types of milk and he was confused. I then said "Maybe it's something made from milk." He replied Cheese and he purchased some kind of cheddar which we soaked in a cup of coffee in a bowl. He tried it in a day after leaving it in the fridge and said this tastes delicious.

I added that this is good but shouldn't be done with such a salty cheese and instructed him to drink water.

We continued speaking about things made of milk and I learned about yogurt. I asked him how long a food takes to digest compared to a fluid and learned that it's much slower.

Since then he stirred instant coffee powder in his sugary yogurt and ate it before work in the morning. It's sort of like a sustained release coffee because of the way the beans digest and similar to water yogurt is good for the kidneys which I had learned from him. In a way perhaps even better than just cold water. Within a few years other people in Bulgaria started doing this. He liked to speak to his friends and the thought spread.

When I was somewhere around 3 years old in Bulgaria my father had to buy groceries and my mother was at work. I was hungry and he said "Alright Mitko. Can you stay by yourself for about 30 minutes. Here is my cell phone number and how you use a phone if you need help."

Anyway he left and a person walked in maybe 20 minutes after. I thought he was a burglar although he may have been a friend of my fathers and he looked at me for a moment. I said in Bulgarian language "Mislish li che dobro vinagi pecheli sus smetka na nashto ocelavane?" [Do you think that Good always wins with calculation towards the survival of our society?] (Meaning the country, Bulgaria.) He continued looking at me but he moved his legs downward so he could speak on my height level. He didn't say anything and I added [Ako nyakoi pushi ima bolka posle.] If someone smokes they have pain later.

He left shortly after and didn't steal anything. My father arrived and I explained the monologue. I added "Vikamgo borbata sus cafe e melatonin."

He called me an idiot. Then I asked him "If a person drinks coffee they wake up for work. Many years later after their retirement they don't have energy. If a person takes melatonin at night they fall asleep earlier. Then they don't need coffee during their day for work."

"Intelligentno e." he replied. [It's intelligent.]

I added that he's right. I should have called it the battle of melatonin and coffee. That a person should always say the good subject first.

And as I walk around in Bulgaria and New York I notice people are starting to avoid these things you know? People used to smoke in the 90s now people very rarely do it. More people brought alcohol and now most of the time it's only drank socially in small cups or at a birthday.

I told him that I think coffee cups will become bigger and people will need to make the choice. Unfortunately most people probably chose coffee.

When someone buys a small coffee it costs more to make because of the design of the cup than a larger one. Yet these people are intelligent.

"A child has time and energy but we don't have money. An adult has money and energy but they don't have time because they're working. An elderly person has money and time but they don't have energy. I think I know how to solve one of these things!" I raised my finger while saying the last part in our language because I was excited at what I was thinking.

When a person buys these 200 or 300 mg caffiene energy drinks essentially what they're buying is an amphetamine instead of even a large coffee or tea and caffeine should not be used that way.

I added during my long monologue while my father was sitting at the table. "When we were cavemen we relied on good to find food and protect children. We should rely on good instead of hitting them and just explain that if someone smokes cigarettes they're going to have pain from cancer later on by speaking to them."

He had not hit me yet and I was thinking clearly.

"There are so many issues with the world throughout all of world history. If we were created to survive we will eventually solve all of them."

The last part I added because I was thinking extremely creatively is: "Maybe just like you explained that there's a battle between angels and devils for our souls that battle is also present on earth for our minds and our bodies. Our ability to work and have a relationship, to raise children. The things that we take. The things that we avoid. What we do. What we don't do. The effect on us. The battle is being done through all of the things that they made on earth. Foods and drinks. Plants. Our fate through our actions meaning world history. That we should live long and not have illness or harm."

As most of you may know after I noticed while walking by my professor watching footage of me kneeling in front of a cross in the auditorium during lunch which fell that he probably published I guess anything I type can be taken with doubts.

The whole conversation was in Bulgarian by the way. When my mother arrived from teaching engineering to college students they discussed it in their room.

When I was young before I came to the US we had guests in our apartment, Lagera, in Bulgaria.

A friend of my mother's or maybe it was my father's I really don't remember stayed as a guest after they had finished work. Anyway I was awake late at night and I had spoken with her during the daytime. She approached me in the living room and said "Oh God I have a fever from the cold. What should I do?? I have work tomorrow."

I told her that I think many diseases start from the lower body. She should put her feet in a bucket with salt and hot water running from the faucet in our bathroom. I told her that I think she might feel mild pain for a few minutes. It goes away. She continues running hot water into the bucket to keep it hot which overflows with the water going down the drain for 30 minutes to an hour at most. Then for her to dry her feet with a towel apply rubbing alcohol on them followed by putting on wool socks and last falling asleep in the guest room with lots of blankets. (We didn't have heating in Bulgaria this was the 90's.) By early morning her fever went away and I overheard her speaking with my father and mother. "Tosi chuvek moje da stane strahoten lechitel." [This person could become a great Doctor in his future.] She continued speaking "Nyama da povyarvate kak se chustvam vuv momenta." [You won't believe how I feel right now.] My father finally interrupted her and said that it's Saturday.

I never really learned much about medicine and I am no medical professional so everything I say can be taken extremely lightly but my method at removing her fever worked well. She didn't even sweat at night (I went in the guest room a few minutes after she had left it in the morning and noticed that the blankets were dry.) I guess a professional General Doctor would need to provide an explanation as to why this worked for my parents' colleague. (They had been friends since high school and there was something wrong with her apartment so she had asked them if she could stay at ours.) She had drank something cold and didn't think it would do anything before arriving to our apartment.

As summer is almost over and I've noticed the weather is colder I thought I would write this early. It might help people to not miss a day of work if you have a cold that you notice late at night after work. Some people work outside and others carelessly drink a cold fluid or we used to in the 90s near winter. Your sinuses start clearing up during the time your feet are in the bucket while running hot water from the bathtub faucet and you begin noticing that it's working. You should wear clothing for your upper body and shorts while doing this.

Later on the word spread and everyone in Bulgaria started doing this.