carpie diem
Purim is right around the corner so ive been busy doing something i dont usually do...baking..hamanashen in honor of our upcoming holiday..and i even strayed from the traditional recipe opting for the usage of nuts and raisons (really good btw!) yet everyone around me and even those oceans apart were outraged at my deviance how cud i mess with the taditional hamantashen in which u have two choices some sort of jam filling or chocolate anything besides that is considered heresy! but seriously i did not expect such an averse reaction to it..anyways to make everyone happy i made the ones i wanted abt 4 dozen cherry ones and some chocoalte for my bro..everyone got something (i quadruapled the recipe!) the other part of my baking evening was playing with my mothers challah dough that had refused to rise - so she had 5lbs of doiugh lying around not doing anything so i started flattening it out making flat bread that i wud imyh later deep fry mkaing pita chips..i made some nut/'raison rolls ( u starting to see i like teh combo?lol) anjd the dough was much harder to work with - my sister joked taht since i didnt hit teh gym last night i was using the rolling dough as a bicep buildinh excerise..and it was kinda i was pushing adn huffing and puffin trying to get that dough to comply to the rolling pin and get flat finally after much exertion on my part..but finally it conceded bh! and i was eating the results this morning for breakfast with my coffee..
the difference between rolling out the hamantashen dough and teh challa dough was incredible- i mean i have never rolled out a dough so easily in my life and it was soft,pliable doing everythin i asked yet the challa one had me using all me bicep power to even get it smoothed out never mind get it flat (plus it had been hangin in teh fridge so it was even harder to deal with..) and i think that this comes out in our lives. as young chilren we are pliable, so easy to mold we yield to direction absorbing every spice every flavor of life, are destiny at that point is not in our hands we are being directed by someone else and it is then that our basic shape and structire is given to us..like a stem cell in a plant or a basic cookie dough it can become anything and has the ability to become the best of whatevr direction it goes in bcz it is so basic and is not yet defined it can develop in my different ways..
howver the difference with teh challa dough is that it has already matured it has already decided what it wants to be and has spent under that alias so makin this person/dough change is much harder. hence they say that u shud decide who u want to be when u are young cuz getting a smoker to quit when hes 40 is much harder tahn when he is 20. the longer we sit on something and especuially if it gets refrigerated and then it really sits in and it makes itself at home it is much much harder to get that dough to comply (like teaching an old dog new tricks) you shudve seen me there battling with that dough tryin to get it to absorb teh nuts and raiuson and cinamon...my hands were covered and my skirt as well trying to pound it in and eventually it did get mixed in but no way as well as with teh hamantashen doiugh which was fresh and soft compliant in my hands doing as i told it without so much as a stick to the counter (after i added a but flour anyways!)
when lookin at character refinment adn development we tend to think that we have time; ill do it later- this will be easier when i get married, when i have my own home, when teh kids leave..we all have our excuses as tyo why we are pushing it off but the more taht we push it off the harder it gets to intergrate these behaviors into ourselvesl. the longer we practice a certain midda the deeper into our core it goes the later the more to teh surface it lays(lies) last night in lab we were discussing something of teh sort. one of my lab partners said she was turning 30 over the weekend and i responded with a "congrats!" and shes like and im gonna be drinking a lot!- i tried explaining how growth was a good thing (our plants for experiment had died-bad thing!) and that growth ment life etc..she and my TA started laughin theyre like - yea but at 25/26 u realize that u are not immortal that ur time in this world is limited and that u dont have forever to do those things that u always wanted to do!
i was thinking to myself - im 21 and i know that... butmaybe i dont; do we really live with teh reality that today cud be my last (not in a morbid depressing way) but in a deterimined lets make everything of today kind away cuz who knows whats gonna be tom, we never know! every day we wake up is another gift of life that Hashem has bestowed upon us and its up to us to make use of it now! we need to decide what kind of person is it that i want to be- what are the middos that i want to be a core part of who i am, what do i want laid at my foundation? and its not enuf to just ask these questiosn but we have to make a consious effort to integrate them into our lives now when its easy otherwise we are gonna be pounding at ourselves when its gonna be hard and gonna take all our effort (obviously its hard regaredless but imagine if its hard now how much harder it will be when we get more and more set in opur ways)
so final words- carpie diem sieze teh day sieze teh moment use teh awesome power of purim to jumpstart our new middos regiment - cuz - im lo achshav aymasai?
the difference between rolling out the hamantashen dough and teh challa dough was incredible- i mean i have never rolled out a dough so easily in my life and it was soft,pliable doing everythin i asked yet the challa one had me using all me bicep power to even get it smoothed out never mind get it flat (plus it had been hangin in teh fridge so it was even harder to deal with..) and i think that this comes out in our lives. as young chilren we are pliable, so easy to mold we yield to direction absorbing every spice every flavor of life, are destiny at that point is not in our hands we are being directed by someone else and it is then that our basic shape and structire is given to us..like a stem cell in a plant or a basic cookie dough it can become anything and has the ability to become the best of whatevr direction it goes in bcz it is so basic and is not yet defined it can develop in my different ways..
howver the difference with teh challa dough is that it has already matured it has already decided what it wants to be and has spent under that alias so makin this person/dough change is much harder. hence they say that u shud decide who u want to be when u are young cuz getting a smoker to quit when hes 40 is much harder tahn when he is 20. the longer we sit on something and especuially if it gets refrigerated and then it really sits in and it makes itself at home it is much much harder to get that dough to comply (like teaching an old dog new tricks) you shudve seen me there battling with that dough tryin to get it to absorb teh nuts and raiuson and cinamon...my hands were covered and my skirt as well trying to pound it in and eventually it did get mixed in but no way as well as with teh hamantashen doiugh which was fresh and soft compliant in my hands doing as i told it without so much as a stick to the counter (after i added a but flour anyways!)
when lookin at character refinment adn development we tend to think that we have time; ill do it later- this will be easier when i get married, when i have my own home, when teh kids leave..we all have our excuses as tyo why we are pushing it off but the more taht we push it off the harder it gets to intergrate these behaviors into ourselvesl. the longer we practice a certain midda the deeper into our core it goes the later the more to teh surface it lays(lies) last night in lab we were discussing something of teh sort. one of my lab partners said she was turning 30 over the weekend and i responded with a "congrats!" and shes like and im gonna be drinking a lot!- i tried explaining how growth was a good thing (our plants for experiment had died-bad thing!) and that growth ment life etc..she and my TA started laughin theyre like - yea but at 25/26 u realize that u are not immortal that ur time in this world is limited and that u dont have forever to do those things that u always wanted to do!
i was thinking to myself - im 21 and i know that... butmaybe i dont; do we really live with teh reality that today cud be my last (not in a morbid depressing way) but in a deterimined lets make everything of today kind away cuz who knows whats gonna be tom, we never know! every day we wake up is another gift of life that Hashem has bestowed upon us and its up to us to make use of it now! we need to decide what kind of person is it that i want to be- what are the middos that i want to be a core part of who i am, what do i want laid at my foundation? and its not enuf to just ask these questiosn but we have to make a consious effort to integrate them into our lives now when its easy otherwise we are gonna be pounding at ourselves when its gonna be hard and gonna take all our effort (obviously its hard regaredless but imagine if its hard now how much harder it will be when we get more and more set in opur ways)
so final words- carpie diem sieze teh day sieze teh moment use teh awesome power of purim to jumpstart our new middos regiment - cuz - im lo achshav aymasai?
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