Pencarian Menuju Tujuan

It was a normal Sunday morning after Sunday mass at Holy Cross Church.
It was at Utown canteen called Food Clique during lunch time.
We ordered our own food from different stalls.
My food was ok. He enjoyed his food, really.
My portion was ok. His was quite a lot.
I can finish my food. Same goes with him – with a bit of effort.
Then there is a comment “I always finish my food.”
Then it brought back my memory and the sound on my head “I was taught to do so too!”
My parents. His parents.
The premise was this: “You must finish what you’ve started. It’s called commitment.”
And I replied: “But you can’t force yourself to continue doing things which you don’t like.”
The suggestion was this: “Before you started to eat, you can assess first whether you will be able to finish it or not. If you don’t, you can give to other people, before you mixed everything in your plate and it looks bad.”
And I replied: “But sometimes people judge wrongly. They made mistake. And when someone knows (s)he made a mistake but do nothing about it, it’s just another mistake by itself.”
Life is too short for you to waste your time doing what you don’t like.
What you don’t enjoy. What you have realized as a mistake.
Don't fool yourself!

This is how food can trigger one (and two) person(s) to think. Deeply.
It’s that complicated. The correlation. The Implication. The analogy.
It’s true that we shouldn’t waste food. There are people starving out there.
(If people starving out there is your main and only reason to die2 finish your food, then might as well you don’t go to the cinema. Because you know, your movie ticket can buy at least two meals somewhere in the developing country.)
It’s true that we shouldn’t be a slave of sins: gluttony. One of the seven deadly sins some more.
It’s true that we shouldn’t pamper ourselves. I agree on those teachings.
But then again, you can’t be too hard on yourself.


You can’t hold on this kind of thing without knowing or having any boundary condition.
There is a need to treat certain things based on case-by-case-basis.
You can’t keep the rule so strict until it defeats the purpose itself.
The rule was made to achieve something good.
If you insist on following that to the extent of hurting yourself, then doesn’t it mean that you don’t treasure your own health?
If you force yourself to continue eating food that you can’t finish for the sake of not wasting food and then it cause you to vomit, does it still make any sense after all?
”Then he said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” - Mark 2:27
In the end...
Every single person has their own principles in life.
We can only explain the rationale and defend what we believe in.
We can’t force other people to have the same way of thinking like us.
They have their rights. We have our rights.
So...please show some respect, guys!