When my friend used to say, "Never say you won't do it, you don't know when you will change your mind or what situations might change the way you think", I always said "Impossible!". Yesterday I realised that he was right. I had stuck to eating food with no meat years ago and called myself "vegetarian by choice", never had I thought that even after feeling so strongly against non-vegetarian food, I would end up trying it. I was sitting next to the same friend at a restuarant, as he devoured a very delicious marinated seer fish, and believe me, I don't often see such a beautiful dish. Even before he offered a bite, I was drooling and the first time he just asked if I want to try, I was ready. But I stopped myself for sometime, still I had to try. The good girl in me begged me to stop, or was it my mental block or my conscience? But I REALLY wanted to try. So I took a teeny weeny bite of it and GOD! it was more yummy than the eggplant dish I was having. It always feels nice to do the forbidden, isn't it? Well, here the forbidden lines were drawn by me, so I could easily cross it. And to my surprise I didnt even puke. I don't know if I will muster enough courage to try again, but now I understand that one cannot think that doing something is impossible or say it can never happen, I wont do it, coz you'll never know what is going to happen in your life and what situations might arise that will change you.
Full credit for the above line goes to my friend who told this :)
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What your friend said was absolutely true.What one does, exactly depends upon the environment ans situation at that instant.
That is just language. The word 'never' is most of the time used to exaggerate a negative emotion at the instance, but people will 'never' mean it.
If you say 'never, I promise' then it is a little tricky, you would have to stick to your eggplant, girl. But here too there are no hard and fast rules. You can always crash a handy china vase on your friend's head and enjoy the seer fish when he is busy counting the stars.
Completely agree with what you say. I have been a teetotaler by choice. And neither the force by friends nor the mocking remarks made me change my status from non-alcoholic to alcoholic. However of late I am thinking as to why I am so strict of not even trying... I think slowly the self imposed constraint is loosening, espcially when no one is asking me to try it !!! However I don't know what is still holding me from crossing the line. May be it's because it's an irreversible phenomena.. Once 'contaminated' you are no more 'un-contaminated'!
So.. like you, one day I might just snatch a friend's glass and gulp it down :)
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Dont know what to comment on ur eating stuff. But my mind has stuck on the title. If everything is possible then why the hell 'Nothing' is impossible!!? Even 'Nothing' should also be possible right!? The title is as wrong as ur belief of saying 'I dont do it'.
I am still Vegetarian by choice :D Lets see when the situations change :P I hope they dont :)
hey i guess ur right...there r so many things which i never thought i will be doing....but finally end up doing....only due to sheer pressure around...:(
Sure thing girlie.....u can always say things are next to impossible, but never impossible.....It is just that situation is the controller of every word we speak and action we do.....and hence tomorrow is always unpredictable.
if u dont want to do it, then say so and stick by it !
why are u dying to give yourself room to break your own rules ?
Its food. I have been non-veg till the age of six when I gave it up. Then I started again at 20 when there was literally nothing to eat that was veg where I was studying.
I now alternate based on how tasty the non-veg dish is compared to the veg one ;)
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