From the time I started helping my mother cut the vegetables in the kitchen, we had a vegetable chopper with its handle fixed at one end and moving at other, due to which it was easy to chop. After getting married, I bought the same kind of this equipment (in a different colour off course) which made cooking part of my life easier.

As the chopper was made of food grade plastic , recently due to lot of awareness on microplastics entering due to such boards , I replaced this crucial tool to a wooden board and a kitchen knife which was used to cut only tomatoes. Initial days of switching was very difficult. I was not used to cut hard veggies or greens using the knife and cut myself many a times. The stability of balancing it in my left hand and cutting squares of onions was a mess. I thought that I would never have passed that dicing test in MasterChef. I was tempted to go back to my old board but gave it some time. Days passed, months passed, slowly steadily I got used to it and can dice veggies like a pro now.

Our lives are also similar to the above situations. When we are under our parents (one handle fixed), life situations are easier. Get married, your spouse will support you the same way (most of the times :)) . But there comes a point in life where you need to overcome an instance all by yourself without any support. Everything appears to be scattered and messy at first but give it time, you will get the hang of it. Not in case of emergency situations but there are some gradual battles which are needed to be fought alone.

Time and patience solves half the problems. Whenever you are in an uncomfortable situation, remember: “It is not difficult, it is just new”. Until next time 🙂