Living through the beautiful progress of life relishing every bite we eat a south indian breakfast, made me think a while. Ghee pongal stands unique among all other dishes, for it had been my all time favourite. Filled with the eagerness to eat with just feeling its warmth, tempting shiny topping of ghee and the essence of pongal is incredible that it will seduce the eater to fulfill the desire of taste buds. Fortunately all my thoughts went despair, for there wasn’t a single cashew nut at the attraction point of the ghee pongal. Enchanted with the lust to search the cashew, I relished every spoon of ghee pongal, without satiation. The plate got emptied as time passed, leaving an incomplete happiness in eating the ghee pongal. Better problems the life put forth, maybe I wasn’t lucky to find a cashew, or the server didn’t want to serve a cashew. Neither the cashew accidentally falls into the server’s spoon, nor the chef put in adequate. Would the restuarant be out of cashews? Suppressing all the questions that rose in my head, I decided to move on. The satisfaction of moving on didn’t last for a long time, tempting me to order one more ghee pongal from the same restaurant for my evening tiffin. My heart was bouncing in random directions with a desire to find a cashew, with my brain normalising the situation stating this isn’t a big issue. I opend the box without expectations. I poured in little sambar and started eating it just going with the passion for it’s taste. To my astonishment, I found a cashew. Overwhelmed, I was speechless. Words can’t express the emotions of my tongue. Does tongue have emotion though? Well I’ll call the sense of taste as the emotion of tongue. Happiness bloomed in my heart, for I was wandering in the dream land of joy. Following that cashew nut, I found not one, but four of them. Happiness quadrupled and nothing could express that emotions of my tongue. Cashew in the ghee pongal - my story with it is similar to life. Stay calm and expect less. When your time comes, you’ll get all you desire. If you dream for a drop, you have the potential to create a Himalaya and river Ganges. Trust the progress of your life and relish every bite of ghee pongal.
