Hilarious! So I guess the title seem to you. Then you might have gone ahead to wonder what lesson can really be learnt while frying some potatoes. Trust me, I did not see it coming too. For the chefs, culinary skilled ones, and also the curious, in case your thought has also led you to make suggestions like; maybe he burnt himself, maybe the oil spilled, maybe he over fried it and the like, well I wish to gladly announce to you that you were wrong - ha-ha. Nevertheless, if I were in such shoes, from the suggestion of the topic I would not be thinking far from those as well. So then, what is this lesson? Follow me please.
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About two days ago was when this occurred. It was a good morning, and after several contemplations on what to eat that morning, I found the potatoes I had bought staring at me. Well, that will be a good one I agreed within me. Hence, I went into action; peeling them and slicing them, getting them ready for the frying pan with the groundnut oil happily waiting in it already. And just know that normally, when I fry things like this I would taste right from the very first batch I drop from the fire. This day was different. I had it to go the normal way of tasting but then, I resisted doing that. And like a joke I fried almost all through without having a taste - yet, until the batch before the last. And this was where the lesson came from.
Meanwhile, the potatoes that gave me a lesson
After the resistance to eat of any of those fried potatoes from the beginning of the frying, I found myself succumbing at this point to take just a small piece, it would not mean much I thought. Here then comes the issue. Haven taken that little piece, it led to another and then I was already having my meal right there in a way - chuckles. It was as if I could not stop picking one piece after another to eat even when I felt like I should stop. Then it dawned on me that all you need to kick start that adventure that you will later find hard to stop is a just a little effortless push. It does not need to be heavy or harsh, no. Just a little push and you are later one month, two years, five years or a decade anniversary into the things you started slowly and effortlessly.
It was really a lesson for me. Though it might have happened with something harmless as that, but I believe the principle remains the same for the things that can destroy us as well. And I thought then; why not we learn to abstain, keep off, set guard, persevere when we know these things have the tendency and chance of ruining us. Therein I found a lesson and message from frying potatoes - ha-ha. Needful to mention as well is that the same principle applies to starting something positive and worthy. They all start with "just a little push".
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I hardly finish cooking without tasting the food on fire too:)
Thank you for sharing this with us @daverick
Normal.
Thank you for reading too