Today was the first day that I cooked an actual meal in a very long time. I almost forgot how much I love to cook. While I was preparing my food, I thought about how so many things in our lives must be carefully calibrated, just like the way we cook a meal. Some things can't be rushed. You can't just turn up the heat and give in to your extreme hunger so that the meat will cook faster, the outside will get burned and the center will be left raw. Your meal will be ruined before you realize your mistake. Then you will be left unfulfilled and probably hungrier than before. Food, like many aspects and other things in our lives, is very delicate. Preparing it takes time, patience, and care. If you want the end result to be satisfying then you have to take the necessary steps to make sure it gets there.
Lots of things in life tempt us to just rush in and turn up that heat, but we forget how easy it is to get burned. All we think about at the time is how hungry we are. It's a great thing to be able to have a certain patience, because I think people that have patience are people that show a lot of strength. That is the kind of person I want to be. I want to live my life with a lot more strengths than weaknesses.
I'm working on it.
Good Evening,
m.m.a.
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11 years ago
3 comments:
I saw your link on facebook and thought I might take a look. I want you to know that you really have inspired me. In so many ways I'm experiencing just what you are and I find it to be the greatest hurdle I've ever had to overcome by myself. It is so challenging and I find so many days that I feel like I am falling back. It is hard to lose someone that was like family but you are right in that now is a time to be selfish because somewhere on this planet there is someone one hundred percent perfect for you and for me. It has been a great time remembering and learning more of who I am not who we were. You have really touched me and I thought that would make you happy to know that you have atleast one reader out there :)
Best wishes! If you ever want to talk, I surely can relate.
<3 Erica Hamadanchi
Hey! I cooked dinner tonight too! I have commend you on being so reflective about it. While I was cooking I was just trying to figure out the best way to thaw and drain spinach. (Don't worry. I looked it up online.)
Food always helps me think straight, and the points you make in every post you write symbolize the huge steps you are taking towards growth. I also find myself inspired by your optimism and push for the future and betterment of yourself!
Keep up there fantastic work Mo....I'm really rooting for you!!
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