There are two types of people:
One who like to eat delicious food and are ready for any invitation from any corner. They eagerly await and keep their taste buds awakened for birthday parties , wedding anniversaries , picnics or any other get-together. Irrespective of the nature of occasion - happy or sad - they are ready with insatiable hunger. We customarily celebrate birth as well as death and no celebration is complete without special eatables. They have a ready menu to suggest you to suit your budget. They are even willing to help you locate a caterer, a shop or a server who is reputed. They will very skillfully succeed in getting 25% of items of your menu to be their favorites.
On the other hand, the other set of people are those who keep a constant watch on their intake. These health conscious people try to eat only as per the nutritional value of each and every item in their mind. They cannot tolerate scenes of people taking too many oily, spicy and chilly items. They try to follow their set norm. They, as guests in a party, appreciate the gesture and effort of the host for offering sumptuous sweets and curries, but decline politely to consume beyond their set limit. They treat food like medicine. You can’t increase or decrease the quantity or deviate from the timing fixed.
Now the problem is we have to carry our friendship without offending or losing either of them.
Really good topic.
ReplyDeleteBoth groups of people are missing the big picture of life. Food sustains the life but also gives pleasure and occassional excesses can spice the life ( pun intended). On the other hand the people who live to eat become so indulgent that eating becomes an addiction to the detriment of life. This negates the very purpose of food which is to sustain life.
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Food and friendship are closely related. It usually turns out that people who cannot sit and eat or drink together cannot become good friends.
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