How was your weekend? Maybe according to plan or not at all according to plan. It does sometimes end in a mess, but it doesn't mean your whole life is a mess.
I often experience a messy life. Many things don't go according to plan. But I avoid my mind from being messy, by choosing to do things that I can do.
One of them is I like to enjoy delicious dishes, while evaluating my life plan. With the experience of enjoying new flavors, my mind is refreshed. I gather new energies.
On Saturday night, I stayed at an affordable hotel with my husband. Then on Sunday morning, I enjoyed a buffet breakfast that made my good mood return.
In fact, I always choose a hotel with a delicious breakfast. Buffet food with many choices of food available. So, it really doesn't make us lose at all. We can taste many types of dishes, get many new taste experiences.
I arrived at the hotel restaurant at 6.30 am, and sure enough. Not many people had arrived yet. I did this on purpose so that I could freely photograph the menus at this hotel restaurant. If many people had arrived, I would have felt embarrassed to photograph the entire food in this place.
Initially, I asked a chef there to make an omelet. While waiting, then I went around to start choosing the food that I would enjoy for breakfast on Sunday Morning.
I chose fruits, also boiled sweet potatoes. Of course, there were many choices of fruits and vegetables for salad. However, I chose no salad dressing. I only chose papaya and melon.
With a more traditional choice, a sweet breakfast, I chose serabi cakes (rice pancakes served with a sweet and thick coconut sugar sauce).
Continuing to the main course area. Indonesian breakfast always serves heavy meals. But that is a subjective choice, because there are also many light menus.
There is rice, white rice and fried rice. Also, there are fried noodles. For the rice option, there are many side dishes provided. Also, the choice of vegetables, although not too varied. But mostly, the dishes are quite satisfying.
I chose potato wedges, with crispy sweet and sour fish, also garlic bakcoy. To beautify my plate, I added decorations on my plate using hot sauce. This is what I can do, but at least my plate does look a little cute to look at, ehehe.
Eating while thinking? No problem at all. I don't like eating while chatting. I choose to eat silently, but my mind is thinking about many things. At least I have to make peace with my thoughts. I even have to let go of things that don't go according to plan.
There are many plans in my life that don't go according to plan. But behind the failure, there is something else that can be created. I just need to look from the other side and change the method to make the plan work.
I just hate being a person who is stuck, without progress, without improvement. I hate just being a person who can't help others. I don't know, but I want in my life plans, I can help create many jobs for people around me. I don't know if it will come true, but I just want to help others. In the past, I had to go through poverty alone and it was very painful. But I want others not to feel the same way I did.
So, let's taste desserts for a sweet ending. Taro pudding that is not too sweet, then I combine it with small pieces of sweet baked cookies.
I always believe, nothing is really messy, when we intend to change the situation for the better. It never happens for people who never act. But once you get used to it, you will easily adapt to change.
Home is not about where you go home and feel comfortable, but where you put your soul. So, wherever your home is, you will always carry your soul with the memories that shape it all. Never be afraid to move and maybe it will give you a new home location. Just don't ever change your soul for a new place.
Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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