I love to cook. Without sounding conceited, I happen to be a really good cook. What I like most about cooking is a persons response. I get a real thrill out of making people happy via the tummy and taste buds. But, I wasn't always a good cook.
My children still remind me that once upon a time if their dinner did not come out of a box (hamburger helper) or from the drive thru they were astonished. I also had a cook at one time. That's right, a cook. She would come once a week, prepare a weeks worth of meals, put them in the freezer with reheating instructions.
So why did I start cooking? A friend of mine, who happens to be a very good cook as well, explained to me that cooking was all about control. That was all it took! My personality loves control. I can make food do whatever I want it to.
I know this is probably a little far fetched, but I am gonna start approaching other areas of my life the way I do with cooking. I am gonna take control.
Yep, just like cooking this will take time and patience and a clear goal of what my desired result is.
I'm gonna manipulate and marinate until I have perfected the recipe for life. I have a good start, I already know what not to do.
Malicious Extrapolation
9 years ago
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I remember the days of the cook. And I remember my suprise that you could cook and really well. Who knew!!! I miss those dinners.
ReplyDeleteas far as control of life. I think it is more control of self. You can't control life. It will happen no matter what, but if you are out of control the things that happen to you in your life will be out of control.
If you are in control of YOURSELF, the things that happen to you in your life will also be better, since I have found chaos breeds chaos.
If you want a peaceful life, full of success then the interior has to reflect that which you want to bring into your life.
I think Lettinggo nailed it. There really is so much we can't control, and if we are to have any peace we have to acknowledge that.
ReplyDeleteIt's not what life throws at us that make us who we are; it's how we react to it.
Amen, sister, Amen
ReplyDeleteIn the book "ILLUSIONS" Richard Bach writes:
We are all free to choose a different future, or a different past.
To me that says, it is our choice on how we choose to view what has happened to us. As a victim, a survivor, or as a person who has learned a live lesson and moved on to the future, being neither survivor or victim, but rather being someone who can "let go" and get on with their life.