The Bedtime Series | Season 1, Ep 19: Food!
I want to do 21 stories. They say 21 days of continuously doing something can help form a habit out of the activity. I am not too sure about how easy it will be for my older, and more battered neurones to create the required connections to recreate the habit of writing in me. We’ll just have to wait and watch, won’t we?
Anyway, this evening I wanted to share a bit on my love-hate relationship with food. I have always loved food but I am not a connoisseur of good food or anything close to being a gourmand, but I do like some specific food and drink items, I enjoy going out to eat and I love cooking (at times). I am quite methodical when it comes to food and what I like about it too. I do not have many needs or tastes. I love a good Dal Makhani, Shahi Paneer and Butter Garlic Naan. I enjoy my Tandoori, Kadhaai and the all time favourite — Butter Chicken. I love a well made caramel cold coffee (Starbuck’s caramel frappuccino or CCD’s very own cafe frappe are my top two choices). Food can really help lift my spirits and can also have the adverse effect of dampening my mood when I am really hungry. I can fast, starve and go without food for long periods of time but normally, towards the end of a day, especially after a longish day, I might look forward to a really good meal. If that meal eludes my palette, I may get really really grumpy and there is no recovery after that till the time I get my hands on whatever I was looking forward to.
I know, mind over matter is a concept that I can also relate to (that’s why I can go for long periods of time without food), but when I am hungry after my mind has decided to have food, it becomes a whole lot tougher than usual. The good part is that now I know this is what happens to me. I can try to make fun of myself and not be as irritating as I usually am. (Self awareness surely helps). But even till a few months ago, I did not understand what was happening to me and I’d get so mad, angry and downright irritable for long periods of time. As soon as I got some food inside me, I’d be a different human being altogether.
In the current state of flux, I am also feeling the need of continuous context change because of which I do think, a dinner or lunch or even cold coffee outside home really helps me. (to know more, the blog on FLOW can be a good reference point). Hence, good food + good ambience does help boost a lot of internal creativity and motivation.
Well, can’t say I have mastered the art of ‘not letting food (or the lack of it) play with my mind’ but I am getting there.
Abruptness Cheerios.
