A Life Lesson From Soup

Making something good with what you have

Decided to make soup today.

A soup I’ve never made, before.

Minestrone.

I Googled a recipe and just cracked on.

Adapting and freestyling as necessary.

I had most of the ingredients.

Well……..kind of.

No celery.

(But…….hey…….whoever missed celery?)

I don’t eat meat so omitted the pancetta, opting instead for vegetarian ‘bacon’.

Didn’t have the ‘small’ pasta it called for, so had to make do with fusilli.

The Parmesan was blue when I’d come to add it at the end…….so had to forfeit that altogether.

And as I ate this bowl of life affirming goodness - more hearty stew than soup - it occurred to me, that had I checked the recipe first, waited til I had ‘everything’, I wouldn’t have made THIS soup, this vibrant, wonderful thing, uniquely mine.

I could easily have convinced myself it wouldn’t have worked.

Might have talked myself out of making soup altogether.

Which would have been a shame……cause it was a fine meal.

I’d made it work with what I had.

Given it a shot anyway.

Blagged, substituted.

And isn’t it the same with life?

You can wait til you’ve amassed all the ‘right’ ingredients you need to make something perfect….. ONE DAY.

Or you can gather together what you already have to make something decent……TODAY!

RIGHT NOW!

Fresh as the idea blowing in your mind!

What’s the worst that can happen?

You fuck it up.

And if you do, you learn what works and doesn’t and you become a better ‘soup maker’, don’t you?

You’re hungry NOW.

The time is NOW.

So, go create!