For the christians out there ... what are you giving up for lent? Options

[HakunaMatata]

Lent may only apply to Christians, but if you are one and are celebrating Lent, what are you giving up starting tomorrow? Or, if you're not a Christian or don't celebrate Lent, what's one thing you would give up? Or the other way around, what's one thing you don't think you'd ever be able to?

Starting tommorow, I'm giving chocolate and fast food. I have up chocolate last year for Lent, too, and ooooh-wee, the first couple weeks were terrible.

[*kryogenix*]

Is this a Fast, to keep
The larder lean?
And clean
From fat of veals and sheep?


Is it to quit the dish
Of flesh, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish?


Is it to fast an hour,
Or ragg’d to go,
Or show
A down-cast look and sour?


No: ‘tis a Fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat
And meat
Unto the hungry soul.


It is to fast from strife
And old debate,
And hate;
To circumcise thy life.


To show a heart grief–rent;
To starve thy sin,
Not bin;
And that’s to keep thy Lent.


-Robert Herrick