I never thought I would know what cravings are, until I came here!! I miss the aroma, spices, freshness, natural food and everything related to that. Starts with coffee everyday, no matter how many flavours n varieties u get in coffee, u r not satisfied. The aroma of the filter coffee, the taste...mmm I cant tell u how good it is! You will realize that never in ur life u felt the same way towards coffee. And then comes the food, I would love to eat out on most of the occassions but not now! After the bday treat being so baddd :( I cant imagine myself venturing that again! Ofcourse there is a big difference here, there comes the veggie stuff. I have to say, they are the poor souls who can not believe something which is 100% veg is really veg. This makes it possible to dramatically change all veggie junta to 'super star chefs'. You get to see all frozen food, cut into pieces to make your job simple. But somehow you wont like to use the shortcuts this time. You prefer to buy the fresh ones and prepare them all by urself. Not to stop there, u start searching for only those restaurants which offer traditional country food. You will fall in love at first sight with that kinda places! Finally you will realize that the cravings have reached the saturation level and would be dying to return to your place. This place made me realize the importance of cravings n how powerful they are!! I thank this place which made me realize the value of something which we often criticize! It's like being in hostel for the first time in ur life. It's like missing ur mom's food in hostel!!
A recent experience of directing a drama with children opened up new perspectives to the mother and teacher in me. As I was pondering about the art of acting as someone in a story, it dawned upon me that children are born actors. Look around to see how natural it is for a young child to imitate others all the time, so well without any inhibition or filter. A child naturally lives in the other to understand what it means to be the other - it is profound learning, and hard work that they are doing. It is only later, through the years of growing up, we gain the ability to look at others as someone else from the self. Hence we grow the ability to empathise, that we can transform ourselves to feel what it means to be in others shoes and come back to the self - much like playing a role in a drama. As we grow, we invite many roles into our lives (father, mother, brother, son, aunt etc.) and juggle between acting in different roles. We act so well that we actually live in that role and
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