I recently attended a luncheon with a buffet setup. The menu consisted of about 15 chaffing dishes all filled with deliciously
prepared food.
As I went to serve myself, I faced a
challenge in deciding what to put on my plate as there was plenty of food. I decided to check each chaffing dish before
selecting what to put on my plate. I had two challenges by the time I completed
checking namely, the plate couldn’t accommodate the food I wanted, and my stomach
could only allow for so much.
In the end, I simply got what I could
manage to fill on the plate and finish. I could see people struggle to fill up
their plates and barely managed to eat half of what they got not out of their
willingness but because there was only so much, they could handle.
You only have one mouth, and the ‘tummy’
can only take it in so much at a time and once it’s filled anything extra is
not to your advantage.
As this whole episode was unfolding, I
thought about how this scenario plays out in other areas of my life. No matter
how many clothes you have, you can only wear one at a time, similarly with
shoes, watches, etc. No matter how many houses you have, you can only live in
one at a time. No matter how many cars you have, you can only drive one at a
time. You can only be at one place at a time, one experience at a time.
Like our stomachs limit our need for
extra food, time may limit our opportunities to do all the things we may want
to do and have. It’s far better to be content with the little you may feel you have at a
particular time in your life if it sustains you. Be
content with the job you have, car you drive or house you live in than being sad wishing you had more.
After all, the present is not the
ceiling of your life but merely moment in time which will pass allowing for more to be added to your life.
The solution is not
more things but to be happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you
want.
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