What is worth in your life

Amuse Bouche: Weather it may be gadgets, situations or events. Let’s make those things ours, and fuel our life.

Entrée: Understanding the meaning of different walks of life. Each and every one of us has experienced things that may seem meaningless to some but valuable to others. When acknowledging this. I think of the common saying that states. “One’s man trash is another man’s treasure”. There was one day which a visual object wrapped my head, ambitions, goals and in present day, still fuels me in order to drive and strive to become the best I can be. Tracking all the way when I was learning how to cook, a gadget called a pocket thermometer caught my attention. This device is a helpful tool chefs use to help them read temperatures of cooked meats and other ingredients. Well something as simple as a thermometer shook me off my boots. Not because of the fact of its simplicity, or capacity it has to make one’s judgment a bit easier, but because of the meaning I had given the thermometer. One day while catering a party, Chef Simon one of the chefs who structured me in my early cooking days, was wearing one on his left sleeve pocket of his chef coat. I remember that caught my attention. This to me it meant something more than just a helpful object. It was a sign of accomplishment, knowledge, resourcefulness, and respect. Not a medal, not a diploma, not even an award, had struck me by surprise before, but a thermometer. Maybe it was the person who had it on. Knowing how much knowledge and respect Mr. Simon had earned throughout the years, made it a bit more meaningful to me. Mr. Simon had all the qualities of what I consider in a real chef. Drive, persistence, patience, knowledge, character, passion, respect and most of all. He was a teacher. In my opinion a chef should never say. “It’s my secret recipe.”A recipe cannot ever die. But it should be up for the taken, for upcoming individuals who are desire to improve or express their passion, story or point of view through it. To me a chef should be a teacher. Leaving a legacy behind from what others have learned from his teachings. Going back to that moment I remember that inside of me I spoke to myself. While looking down to see what I was doing. I nodded to myself and said in my head. One day I proudly will be wearing one. By doing so, to me it meant not that I was made, but a reminder of where I am coming from and where I am going. What’s the reason I do what I do? How I will be getting there? Basically it gave me a vision. Not a sight but a vision. Because you may have sight but no vision, these are two different things. I see how many people walk in life without ambition. Don’t plan ahead, have no drive or vision. Your vision might not be the same as mine but that’s no reason for you to be excusing yourself from life. I believe we aren’t here on earth just to inhale air and exhale impurities like carbon dioxide. Each and every one of us have goals, and things we want to accomplish. To you it may not be a thermometer to remind you of the reason why you are who you are, why are you doing the things you are doing. Basically what I am saying, referring speaking to young folks like me or anyone who feels they need to step it up a notch. We have something better to life for then just waiting to see what every day brings us. I have lost friends to suicide, depressions and situations which can be prevented just with a little drive. Weather rain or shine; try to make each day count. If we wake up to a shiny day, it means that we have been given a new chance, but since I know we live in a real world not a fantasy one, there will be a rainy side. Well, take that time and stay in, not paused and waiting for the rain to cease, but we can search within us and see what can we fix, and twist or make adjustments from yesterday so when that shiny day comes, which it will. Our outcome will be more delightful. If we really think about it, here on earth, we live under sunnier days than rainy ones. For me what works is a thermometer. Helps me vision my future, I wear it with pride knowing that yet, I am not there, but walking on the path to become the best I can.

Dessert: One big arsenal that life holds is the intimidating word of impossible; everyone at one point or another has been attacked or bombarded by it. But who ever counter attack with their goals, or visions. That person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed unreachable. Better is to stand for something that way one doesn’t fall for anything. Next time take a look at a person. Don’t try to understand the heart and mind of that individual. Don’t look at what they already achieved; instead take a look at what he or she aspires to be. The thermometer for me reads what I have to aim for. Now you have to aim with something else and mark to hit that target.