Muffin, if someday I want to be a dessert it would be a muffin, soft and stable at the same time. There are many other food items which I like to eat at many ungodly hours whenever I feel sad about something, the day has not gone well, routine is not being followed etc.Food is something which we have at best and at the worst of our time. It makes the moment memorable for us at birthdays, anniversaries, get-togethers etc.

We have a tendency of enjoying good food with good moments for which we wait for a particular day or time to arrive so we may live it to the fullest. I must tell you this is a great idea to make a joyous occasion more happening but at times this plan backfires too because when we make up our mind to do a task in rigid time duration or else TIME IS UP! There is no such thing as ‘right time’ when it comes to enjoying your present to the fullest and when it comes to food, we all food lovers are aware that making food wait is disrespecting it.

According to my Food psychology, we wait for the right time to eat our favourite food because we want to mark the time as a special occasion to celebrate with food. There is no harm in thinking so deeply about your food but when we start to live in the moment for everything we do at present at an early stage of practising this habit we must do one task at one time because doing two things at the same time lacks you from enjoying both the tasks equally and we are left with doing both the things half-heartedly. So as per my suggestion, one must not eat your favourite food watching your favourite show as you may be able to enjoy only one of them to the fullest and the other will be left just as a sidekick.

What I do now is just take a soft drink or juice to watch any show so I may not get thirsty and something tasty keeps going in my gut. By doing this I am not obliged to focus on a variety of food and eventually enjoy my time. There are times when I do overthink about my career or what I may be doing after 10 years from now and all this hits me hard altogether at the same time. This happened to me a week back at night when I was sitting idle for hours doing nothing when maa came and told me we have to go out for a dinner tonight, I was still numb as if I didn’t care much wherever we go but as soon as we reached there the starters were started to get served with mocktails, all this left me enchanted and after that, the only thing I remember is that I was just eating and enjoying. There were no taunt hearing or chit chats just the food and me. All my senses were working at their par level to immensely enjoy this moment.

Something related to this happened to me last month when I went to Ladakh for a week with family. Every day we used to travel to different places with no network and internet connection and in such situations, the only thing I think about every moment is my bed. Me and my cousins used to run to our room as we reached our hotel to sleep in our blanket. Daily I had a healthy breakfast like milk and cereals with no lunch and normal dinner because there was not much to demand for good food when your priorities outset to your room. It was our third last day of the trip and as per schedule, we stopped at a restaurant around 4 pm to have some lunch since our destination was still 5 hours ahead. We ordered curry and chapati and my cousins ordered french fries and honey chilli potato, now I can’t have them because I don’t know whether they will taste good or not and I cannot risk my palate for it. Dishes arrived fries and honey chilli looked very tempting everybody asked so I took a bite of each of them and they were absolutely amazing in taste, I hadn’t had anything like that in my whole week. Honestly, those two dishes made my whole day successful and the trip much more interesting.

Food is all about eating with the deepest core of our emotions, be it good or bad food adds a charm to every such experience.