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By Rajani / 28/02/2013 / Recipes / 13 Comments

Having choices. We all want choices, I’d like more colour options when I am sketching without me having to mix some up, I’d like to have more than five options when I am dressing up, and when I am eating out I first need to make a choice on where we’ll be eating at, and then when we get there what we’ll be eating, where I live has been chosen, after a well thought out operation where we reviewed several equally good options.

Yet having options kills me sometimes. I am one of those eternally confused mums who believe in taking all the roads, the ones walked on and the ones overgrown and neglected. My mother on the other hand is a person who’s blessed with foresight and hindsight, which makes it easy for her to decide on things, without wasting time, energy or resources. She says she can do it because she grew up having no choices. So she is really free from the burden. So generally her life view is either a tick or a cross.

It works… for her.

My daughter is born into a world where some choices were already made for her, like pink is for girls… she slipped right into the pink jammys with a Barbie in one hand. She has so many things to choose from that neither me nor my mother, or her mother before her could even imagine. Her universe has perfectly sized tomatoes, beans that are the same length, supermarket aisles assault her pint sized senses with crazy dreams, aspirations and choices. In school five and six years olds like her are already learning about the food pyramid, knowledge is on their side, but sadly apathy isn’t far behind. Because with just as much ease she witnesses food discarded without a thought, third world guilt has long ceased to exist. Having too much of everything just killed it.

But did we always live like this?
Was there a time when our choices made sense with the way we communicated with our universe?
Can we take a leaf from back then and make sense of it in our present?

Well here’s a page, or a few pages from our life, if you see a message in it, take it, its yours.

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  • Sally Prosser

    This is a beautiful poignant story and the illustrations are wonderful. It demonstrates how far we’ve come in a generation…and not in a good way. Bravo Rajani

  • Jyothi

    Loved your post. The illustrations were great too. Such a relevant message for our times.

  • Shiyam

    Our lifestyle and eating habits have changed considerably. Such a beautiful deception. Tastefully done. Kudos!

  • IshitaUnblogged

    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… touching the ‘serious’ issues in such a ‘light and hearty’ manner. Well done Rajani!

  • Sreekala Nayar

    Hi,

    I am new to your blog and have read several of your posts in one sitting. It’s so heartening to actually get to know ONE person who has escaped from the burgeoning weight issues of PCOS. Thank you!!!! Bracing myself to cut out sugar – right now drinking tea without sugar – it’s not so bad!

  • http://twitter.com/GingerAndScotch sandy

    I love your illustrations! Well done visualizing our modern day issues and how far we’ve strayed away from olden days.

  • dina

    This is beautiful!!! We are so spoilt by choices!!! My husband makes it a point that not even a morsel is not wasted. They are a large family and he always makes sure that Z knows the value of the things she wants/posess. Sharing this one!

  • http://twitter.com/MissStovetop Mishti

    Lovely thoughts, Rajani.

  • http://twitter.com/LaMereCulinaire Arwa A. Lootah

    I love the illustrations Rajani! They definitely portray our daily lives. Growing up we had many options but still, we were taught not to take everything for granted, that what we have is a gift from God and that there are many people who don’t have such options. I try to teach my boys the same values but boy it’s hard. They have double or triple the options that we have and nothing ever satisfies the,!

  • Sayantani

    Am speechless with this post Rajani. I have been trying to teach my son the same and now I know how to. thanks for this touching post and for trying to convey this precious message so beautifully. Can I share the link on my FB page?

    • http://www.eatwritethink.com/ eatwritethink

      sayantani please do :)

  • Amanda

    Thank you for submitting your blog entry to the UNEP-Tree Hugger Blogging Competition. Please send an e-mail with your contact
    information to worldenvironmentday@unep.org

  • http://www.eatwritethink.com/ eatwritethink

    thank you all for your encouraging feedback!

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