When I was younger, I would go to my old preschool in the morning; there was a bus that dropped off neighborhood kids to various area schools. I'm guessing this was some kind of before and after care. Well anyways, me and a boy we're hungry, so one of the workers said I could make us cereal. I remember cheerios and sugar. Well my little self went through all the work of preparing this for us. The kitchen was upstairs and we brought our bowls downstairs to the main area. Everyone was around, I hadn't started to my homely meal, when I saw the most disgusted expression on this boy's face. I swear there were two containers, I added salt instead of sugar. Now, I'm not sure if this early act has anything to do with my inability/inhibition about cooking for men (and maybe women too), I find it hard to even pour tea. Maybe this is something that I need to work on. Anyways, looking back one can look at this situation in many ways; there's a lot to be learned.
1. Investigate, realize what is it tat you're dealing with. Yes, the containers were unmarked, and my little grade school mind never thought that salt would take the place of my cereal's sugar, but it did.
2. Don't serve men, okay this is really something that I need to work on. Childhood scaring is powerful.
But what I see mostly in this situation, is that in life, too much of something isn't necessarily a bad thing; one must understand balance. Know how much of something you have or don't have,then, by simply adding or subtracting these things one can begin to create a balance. Now it's always 'best', to do things 'right' in the first place. Sometimes this is more possible than other times, for example, the cereal could have been 'wasted' by throwing it out and getting a new bowl, but if sugar were added, the problem could have been remedied. But, as a kid I'm sure that I added more salt than cheerios, and would have needed a lot of sugar to cancel this.
In more complex facets of life creating a balance is all we need.
No comments:
Post a Comment