I had my first official Singaporean Chili Crab last night.

How did that come about?

Well, I was invited to headline a massive seminar called the "World Internet Summit" and brain dump some of my new thoughts about ecommerce.

So, here I am ...  (Giving a pretty edgy and experimental two-part presentation ...)

Anyway, I was really fired up to tuck away one of these crabs after hearing so much about them.

One of the other speakers, my buddy Stephen Pierce, talks about them like they are deep fried Mars bars on ice cream.  His eyes glaze over ... His tongue wags ...  It's hilarious.

So, I went out there last night with an assorted collection of rabble rousers from the event and was the only guy at the table ordering this dish.

10 minutes after it came out, I was elbow deep in chili sauce trying pathetically to pull the crab meat out of this monstrosity.

My wife was wiping my face ... Rolling up my sleeves ...

I can do a lotta things.  Handle a crab gracefully with my bare hands ain't one of 'em.

I was really disappointed.

I'm not sure what I expected, but that wasn't it.

At the end, I pushed the plate away, wiped my hands (with about 10 napkins and two wet-naps), chucked the last napkin down and announced, "Well that sucked."

Everyone laughed.

And somehow in this minor disappointment I lost touch with how ridiculously lucky I am.

In the moment I was a spoiled little punk who didn't get his toys.

How easy it is to forget that not long ago I was a young kid who spent many days struggling to find his next meal.  Who went hungry on many occasions.   Who ate in soup kitchens on others.

Let me tell you this ...  Chances are you've never had to go hungry.  Knowing what I know about those who read this blog, it's statistically likely you've never "gone hungry" your whole life.  Sure, you may have missed a meal here and there, but have you ever not known where your next meal would come from?

I'm here to tell you it sucks.

Sucks worse than most anything you can imagine.

It certainly sucks a lot worse than the disappointment my sense of entitlement gave me about Chili Crabs.

Anyone who hasn't gone hungry has no idea why I say that eradicating poverty and providing for basic human needs is one of the keys to world peace.

See, what you may not understand is something I feel deep in my bones.  Hunger leads to desperation.  And desperate people do desperate things.

It's easy for us to sit back watching our flat screens, sucking down our burgers, shakes, and fries, and judge the pictures of poverty we see on TV.

"Why don't these idiots just help themselves? (sluuurrrp)"

It's not that simple.

Many people are in regions where their governments, or the influences of foreign governments, are making it difficult to get food to them.

In other cases, people just don't know any better.

When I was very young there were times when I shoplifted for food.

I'm not particularly proud of that.

But I didn't see any other options at the time.

Did that make me a bad person?  No, it made me hungry.