Here I am..

"Food for Soul"....

How did this actually start. It started last month when one of my extended family members asked me to start a blog to post some of my "fast food" recipes for people like him. Well he also showed me how simple it is to start a blog. Not that I am technolically challenged but yes I didnot know how to go about it. So to say the path was shown to me but then I was not too sure that I would tread this path...may be some day..but definitely not today was the thought that was playing in my mind....I just forgot all about it and was blisfully living my normal life.

Then yesterday it happened. As I was doodling on the net, I suddenly remembered the path shown to me and then what did I do..well I created a blog. When the option for the blog name came, I did not think for a minute and just named it "food for soul". Well this name came to my mind not because I wanted to give it a fancy name..it came because I was starting a food blog and what better way to start it than something to soothe your soul..and then came the dreadful part of writing my first post....and you guessed it right I just didnot know what to write...I had named my blog but I didnot know what to do with it.???? So as any practical individual would do, I did not write anything..so here I had a blog and I did not know what to do with it...so I let it be and then clsoed it..

Today morning when I got up..this blog was playing on my mind and I knew I had to do some thing about it...I mean I had to post something..if not for anyone else but definitely for myself..I felt foolish and stupid that I created a blog but could not share it with anyone for a simple reason I did not know what to share....so I let the thought of writing be with me and kept myself busy with my morning chores..and then once everyone was gone I sat back staring blankly at my computer screen..thinking of what to write..so decided to use some of my management knowledge...and though of looking it from a project point of view....and see where was I getting stuck...so to say as my ex-boss always use to say "take a helicopter view" so that I could fit all the pieces together and start wth my journey called "food for soul"....

Step 1: Why did I start this blog [well I was fairly clear on that]- so one down.... hippeee...

Step 2: What was the purpose of this blog [now this is where I was stuck]..see it pays to be a management consultant...so this is where i was stuck...and I knew until I crossed this I could get no where....so I started with thinking [something which I do very rarely now a days]..and I thought...and I thought...and that took me one tea...2 glasses of water and then I looked at the title of my blog "Food For Soul" and then it clicked....my answer was in my title...

I dissected it like a surgeon....

Food -- now what do we need food for...for survival...for taste...for gaining weight...for loosing weight....to enjoy...to show off....to impress....to pass time and the list went on and on... then came the next.....

Soul -- now what is soul..well didnot even attempt as rishis and sages and intellectuals and philosophers and psychiatrists and faith healers and gurus and yogis and atheists and last but not least and most importantly religion have for ages have been struggling to give an answer to this question....so me a humble, chota sa insaan with even smaller brain conviniently decided to skip this explanation that has the entire human kind scratching their heads for centuries...

Moving on I put 1+1 together i.e Food for Soul and then like "buddhas enlightenment" it dawned upon me...Food for Soul could be anything..like good recipes..great music...thought provoking writings...loving pictures.....touching letters and stories....here I was struggling with what to write and now I have this whole horizon which has opened up to me...so I have my answer..the purpose is..to share anything and everything [food] that makes your soul... LIVE ON...

So here I am..my journey for providing food for soul has begun today......