This morning I felt like having hot kachauris with alu ki subzi. So I walked down to the sweet shop that sells it and bought five kachauris. While I was eating it, I dropped a couple of pieces of alu on the floor. I picked them up and threw them into the dustbin. However, while I was having my breakfast, I kept feeling bad that I missed out on those two pieces of potatoes. I kept worrying about whether I had enough subzi to finish my kachauris. In fact, I was so preoccupied with these thoughts that I did not relish what I was eating and in fact, wasn"t even aware of having finished my breakfast!


This is how we go through life sometimes. We are so preoccupied with regrets about things we could not do or missed out on that we don"t appreciate what we have or are doing at the moment. Like me, we get so engrossed in the two measly pieces of alu that we miss out on the taste of kachauris.