What is life? This is a question that has plagued people for centuries. What exactly is life? What is it that we learn from this journey that we all experience?Although this is a tough question, sometimes the answers to the most complicated problems lie in the simplest of things.
To put it quite plainly, I think life is a bit like a cup of tea with a plate of biscuits. The tea with its rich taste and warmth is like life and the biscuits that never cease to accompany the tea are like the lessons we learn in life. Each of the biscuits is like a value we learn . Whether sweet or bitter, the biscuit brings out the best in the tea, as our values do in our life.
The first biscuit one encounters on a plate is one that is invariably perfect. Every aspect- its taste, texture and flavor, is extraordinary.
This biscuit melts in your mouth and lasts no more than a few seconds, however, what you don't realize is that hours of hard work have gone into it. To source the ingredients, make the dough and bake the biscuits, a large amount of effort and experience have been used.
This biscuit is like every good thing in life. because like every good thing , it requires effort. We may not realize it, but to get anywhere, hard work is essential in life. We must try constantly and give our best to achieve excellence.
While enjoying a cup of tea , the next biscuit one encounters is small and plain. There is always that one biscuit that looks unsatisfactory and simple .You feel skeptical and assume that it will taste bad.However, when you take that first bite, it is suddenly the best thing you have ever tasted! You realize that there is a rich cream filling hidden inside of it that is lip smacking! Shocking , right? Not what you expected at all! But get used to it, because this is how life works. The most delicious biscuit on the plate might be the simplest one. Sometimes we judge a book by its cover, but even a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. If we take a chance, we can discover the best things in life.
The third biscuit on your plate is one in the middle. Not too plain, but not extraordinary either. When you take a bite it is essentially an average biscuit. It is one of the biscuits that you will most likely forget ever existed by the time your tea is over.However, when you dip this simple and easy-to-forget biscuit in your cup of tea, it becomes something else entirely. With the flavors from your delicious tea oozing from the drenched biscuit, its taste is enhanced immensely. It no longer is something average, but is something
that you're likely to eat for many years to come.
This goes to show that when you combine different things in life, whether it be flavors, ideas or even tea with biscuits, you get a beautiful unique combination that did not exist before. In life, by respecting each other , and working together by mixing what we each have to share, we can achieve even the impossible.
Last but not the least comes the final biscuit in your plate. You might be expecting it to be fantastic, however, in every plate, there is always that one biscuit that tastes bitter. The biscuit that tastes bad and has no texture or flavor whatsoever. It is the one thing that spoils your tea.
Just like a cup of tea, life cannot be perfect, not everything in life can be perfect. Wherever you look, some imperfection will lie. In a wave of good there is a speck of bad. We cannot expect our life to be perfect, because it just isn't. What we can do, however, is learn to cope with the obstacles we come across and so that one bitter biscuit doesn't spoil an otherwise wonderful tea.
Just like that the cup of tea is over. Time flies and after draining your cup of your tea and eating each biscuit, you wish there was more. You wish you had savoured every drop. It is the same in life. You just keep wanting more. While that isn’t possible, what is possible is to cherish every moment and live it to the fullest. It isn't possible to freeze the moment, but we can still go out and seize the day. I believe that this, more than anything, is the real purpose of drinking tea with biscuits, and essentially, the purpose of life!
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