LOVE, Kloudiia

Last night was a night full of delicious food, fun, laughter, teasing and bantering. Thanks for Tracey for making this coaches gathering possible and successful!

The tale of a sausage, yes literally. Just an interesting and short episode of last night’s event.

HY was eating this long and big sausage held by a stick poked right in the middle of the sausage. I asked to have a bite too. 

“Hooh, so hot!” I said after a slight touch while fanning my tongue with my free hand to cool the heat.

“No it’s not. I’d like to be hotter” HY said.

“Are you crazy? This is already so hot!” that’s me again.

“Food must be eaten hot so that it’s tasty” she said.

I said I can’t take food that is too hot. Unlike my sis and mom, they can really drink piping hot soups and enjoy it deliciously while I will wait for it to be slightly cooled first. Never have been able to understand the logic of overheating our stomachs with “burning” food.

Ok, we respected each other’s model of the world. But that wasn’t the punchline. What happened was we had both eaten the sausage from different ends! Ha!  The sausage was cold on one end and heated at the other. That’s why while I find it too hot, she was literally eating a cold sausage and wished it could be hotter!

You see, the reason why I am bringing this up is to illustrate a very simple point. We will not be able to experience what the others had experienced unless we are willing to walk over to their side and see things from their angles. Who would have thought that even a simple sausage will have such drastic temperature differences at both ends? We won’t, and probably we’ll still be on the issue if she hadn’t turned it around and ate “my side” of the sausage. 

You see, let’s say if she continues eating from her side, maybe by the time she reaches my side the sausage would be relatively cooled, and we won’t know that there is a temperature change. Meaning to say, she will never know that there is indeed a different perspective to see things if she continued walking her same path and undergoing the same experience.

Sometimes, we just need to be more considerate for other people’s feelings for they are really experiencing a totally different life altogether.

So I thought, this is really food for thought, isn’t it?

[tags]Perspectives on life,Consideration,Empathy,Relationships[/tags]