A Lesson From A Cooking Disaster

it's about the taste not the appearance

Last night I cooked for dinner, actually it was not for a big crowd so three pieces of egg were enough. No matter how I tried I never really had mastered the art of cooking "sunny side up". I have cooked based on intuition and it turned out well but when it comes to this I always fail. :-( The outcome was a disaster because it looked more like scrambled eggs rather than the coveted sunny side up. They said it was because I put in too much oil, the frying pan was not made of teflon and the ladle I used was not the appropriate one. So I felt a little relief, it was not all my fault at all. hehe.. It was so good that the blame was shared but then again, after all these years I am committing the same mistakes. One more thing, I forgot to put on salt while it is still on the frying pan, so I made the garlic salt appear like a garnish but I think it looked great despite the fault.

Last night I learned a lesson, life is just like cooking. No matter how prepared you are, no matter how interested you are, no matter how confident you are, there are really matters that you fail to do well. Things do not come the easy way but they are learned through experiences and repeated mistakes. Through these life lessons we create a cognitive map which we can readily tap when the situation requires. Problems also abound, they are part of our existence but it is on how we face it that makes the difference. Like the disastrous egg, we can put on some condiments to remedy the taste and put on some garnish to enhance its appearance. In that way, attention will be shifted from the disaster to the other positive aspects that it can offer. How your life is depends on how you see yourself, how you see others and how you see the world. Sometimes you will even be surprised to discover unexpected blessings in the tragic situation you are into, you just have to observe keenly, listen deeply and feel compassionately. The egg according to my critics tasted good (I think they were telling the truth)and so we ate together and pondered on this new insight.