Social Samosa
I felt like farting and I did. The strange looks of people around me was intriguing.
It was a relief, a good relief.
What could I do? It was to happen, Samosa inside the stomach was eventually going to release the gases and those had to come out. The timing was not right but do gases wait for the right time?
I failed to understand why farting is bad? I mean it gives you such a good relief but you cannot fart in public, its not good. Not good for whom? Probably social status. But reality is that you ate samosa. And you needed to fart so be it.
This is just a small example on how we at every step suppress our emotions mentally as well as physically. This root cause of stress is this suppression.
Social Status has become very important part of our lives. And thus farting is not allowed in public. I keep repeating this sentence as I love to do it. However, social status has become so important that we do things for the sake of doing it. I have literally seen people writing (noting) down amounts they received from some one in a marriage so they know what to give in their marriages. I am either too naive to it or this is just plain wrong. If one were to give, give from what your heart desires for that person and that will be true sense of giving. I have left feeding the society for proclaimed goodness of mine. (my friend pointed out that my posts have unrelated things, but I want to keep it that way)
Samosa is calling back: I loved Ragda Samosa and thumps up. However, as I grew up, I realised I am addicted to the taste food. The samosa just sits there and does not get digested as its fried in oil which needs 64 degrees to digest. I would still eat it and screw up my stomach. Being a gujju, health was the last thing on my mind.
Not any more. Now “sau chuhe khake billi haj ko challi” (after eating 100 mouse, cat went on a pilgrimage), I have come down on salads for most part of my day. I feel a lot lighter, energetic. However no tingling taste of Samosa to satisfy my taste buds.
So what is more important satisfying your taste buds or taking care of your health. A gujju mind says balance both, thats not possible. Like you cant have your cake and eat it too, you cant have samosa and your health too.
Leaving samosa was hard as its smell and taste were in grained in to my mind. So as the system trained my mind in to it, there should be a way to un train my mind. Your mind is the key. So I trained it to eat salad. The overall feeling of eating a salad and being healthy far surpassed the taste of samosa.
You are what you eat is not only a famous quote but also true. All your energy required to live comes from food, water and sun. Food is and Water are under your control.
I do get lot of comments from training my children to eat healthy food, may be I have gone overboard but there is a right intent behind it and thats what matters the most. May be they will not have the taste but they will have health. At the right age, they will choose what they want to choose. Till that time, its okay to train their mind for good.
There is my favourite scene in matrix:
The matrix tells me that this steak is tender and juicy. And he says “ignorance is bliss”. Ignorance is not bliss for me. When you come to know something to ignore something is a capping your evolution as human.
With all due respect to your freedom “Choose Salad Over Samosa”
I still think you should freely fart as and when and how it comes :)
