Well, it is not so early truly right now: 9:35am. I am hungry so I will eat a banana. I have just learned that it is quite customary practice to skip dinner in monastic and nun tradition, daily. Tough. Yes, the monk and nun life is much much harder than i think though I suspect it all along. Everything is renunciation of pleasures and comforts many of us in the west take for granted. Until there is, only, the joy of practice and enlightenement. I am in no shape to be a nun right now. I would not survive it and stay in the nunnery for very long I think. I am now very broken and need my material and food comforts. In my youth, I did not mind at all renuciation and have been known to practice it with food and material goods.