Instant Noodles and Life Lessons

The other night I went to bed hungry.  This didn't happen because I don't have food in my house, I have a full fridge at the moment and a decently stocked pantry.  I also didn't do this on purpose to gain an experience or learn a lesson or anything like that.  The reason I went to bed hungry is because I was reading a book I just got from the library and I was so into it that I didn't take the time to eat.  When I thought about eating it was already so late that I figured I might as well just go to bed and it wouldn't really make a difference.

Apparently my stomach disagreed.

I could not sleep!  My stomach made me well aware of the fact that I had not eaten that night.  Growling, rumbling, and that "hollow" feeling you sometimes get from hunger.  I told myself to ignore it, I have plenty of stored up fats for my body to glean from for one night!  However, I just could not get to sleep because of the hunger.

2:30am found me in the kitchen, slurping up discount brand Raman noodles, wishing I had whole milk instead of 1% and thinking.  Thinking about the people who go to sleep consistently with a growling belly, nothing inside giving them needed nutrients and strength and no instant pasta to make when they can't take it any longer.  What causes them to finally be able to sleep with the constant hollow feeling gnawing away in the pit of their stomach?  How do they ignore the cries for food happening within their own body?  What gives them hope?

I knew I was fine, yeah I was hungry and uncomfortable and also slightly annoyed that I was still awake at 3am on a work night but I had the security and hope of my full fridge and my pantry supply.  How do you go to sleep at night hungry and knowing tomorrow you might go to sleep in the same state?

Now the question is, so what?  What do I do with all these thoughts that came to me as I sat at the kitchen table.  I am well aware that people everyday die from starvation.  I am well aware that people in my own community sometimes have to make the choice between rent or groceries.  So what do I do with all this?  Do I continue on the way I've been living.  I haven't ignored the issue.  Or is there something more I can be doing?