Make a cup of coffee

Yes, literally, make a cup of coffee. Apart from aroma, bitter taste of caffeine, the heaviness of mug and sweet ratio in coffee, you would realize that it consumes more of your time while standing in the kitchen and waiting for milk to boil and figuring out whether you really have a coffee powder in the kitchen or where is it now in the kitchen? If you want to prepare for yourself, are you going to put the coffee powder directly into milk pot? Obviously, No! and it would be too much of coffee for a guy then are you going to put the coffee powder directly into the mug then you might want to cool down the coffee thereafter and by just stirring it up, it wouldn't help. You might need to pour from mug to pot and then from pot to mug but then mug would get dirty and it wouldn't be nice to have coffee in the same mug. So, should you take a temporary glass to make a coffee and then pour it into your mug. Bingo! that would be great to do so. This was a little Scenario1 :)

Scenario2 would be that, it's all up to us, how we see the scenario of making a cup of coffee, we already have boiled milk then just put a teaspoon of coffee powder in a mug, add milk and sugar and then put it up in the microwave and stir a bit would also give us a hot cup of coffee.

Scenario1 tells us, no job is an easy-peasy job, everything takes its own sweet time and it would be worth it as well. Going by Scenario2 would give us the same desired result of making coffee but it may not taste like the way we would have prepared by Scenario1 but that doesn't mean we wouldn't get coffee and it's up to us what to sacrifice and compromise in order to get what in return.

Former part teaches two things but in contrast, don't underestimate any job, even hot cup of coffee takes own sweet time and second things are, we can complicate the process even to make a cup of coffee, just to get a better taste of it ;)

Later part teaches two things and also in contrast, any shortcut to do a job might give the desired result but may not be satisfactory and even a cup of coffee could be made instantly without hustling and wrestling to make one ;)

It's up to us what kind of life we chose to live with. And need not be consistent with the option we chose as well i.e., we can choose Scenario2 to make a coffee but we can still choose Scenario1 to make biryani :)

The idea behind this post is to realize that when we do a job, we need to choose the option consciously and why we chose the way in a way to do a particular job and why in a way it's more important not to spend more time on a particular job and why not to underestimate even a job that might look simple but how the outcome would vary if we go by shortcut. If we chose to do a particular job then we need not follow the same approach to deal with others.

Doing things consciously gives peace of mind as we can estimate the outcome more or less even though if we couldn't predict correctly, I know why my cup of coffee is good or bad. It shouldn't be a guessing game every day that, why my coffee is tasting bad? And we can compare this analogy with the job we do. There is plenty to discuss, but would conclude this post here with this note.

-Ramesh