Taste or Effect

Do you allow something to be digested as your experience—for taste or for effect?

Taste is presence.
It is contact, sensation, and relationship.
It takes time, and it completes.

Effect is different.
It seeks a shift—relief, stimulation, control, or escape.
It moves the system quickly, often before digestion has finished.

When effect is chosen repeatedly, digestion—of food and of experience—doesn’t complete. Not just in the stomach, but in the nervous system, the emotions, the quiet processing that allows something to settle and land.

This isn’t a moral distinction.
It’s a physiological one.

Digestion happens on many levels. It doesn’t require instruction, but it does require space. When the system is continually redirected, completion is delayed, and the body carries what hasn’t yet been metabolized.

Support, here, doesn’t come from changing the choice immediately.
It comes from noticing where digestion has been interrupted—and allowing a little more room for it to finish its work.

Completion isn’t something to achieve.
It’s something the body naturally moves toward when interruptions lessen.