Life is like a bowl of soup

I made a big pot of chicken and lentil soup the other day and it was delicious. I'm not much of a soup guy but if a bowl of soup is significantly more than just hot water with chunks floating in it then I might give it a try. My lentil and chicken soup was very thick and hearty and when you add a healthy dollop of sour cream it really hits the spot.

The wife and I were eating on that big pot of soup for several days. The kids wouldn't help us with it. Anyhow the wife hands me the last bowl just yesterday and in her haste she failed to warm it up thoroughly. You know how something will start bubbling on the stove and it even starts steaming but it doesn't actually get hot if you don't leave it on there for a little while longer? Well that's what she did and it got me to thinking.

Hey this soup is kind of cold, was the first thought that cam into my head upon taking a bite of the not thoroughly warmed soup. My second thought was that soup isn't very good cold. Then my mind starting wandering. You know soup should be hot. The first spoonful should be approached with caution. You look at it and you blow on it then you take a small portion into your mouth. Then you take a little more until the spoonful is gone. Then you might stir the bowl and reload your spoon, blow and then carefully take another small amount into your mouth. As you begin to carefully eat your very hot soup the flavors begin to stimulate your taste buds. As you are able to take more and more of the soup into your mouth the experience becomes more and more enjoyable and the soup is quickly eaten.

I started thinking how life, if approached properly, is like a hot bowl of delicious soup. If you approach it slowly and somewhat cautiously, stir things around a little bit until it is the way you like it, blow on it some (fine tuning) if you need to, and then little by little take in more and more until you are giving it your all, and keep at it until it becomes delicious and you have consumed it all.

Life like soup should be delicious but if it isn't warmed up properly it won't be anywhere near as good as it can be.