I do take things literally sometimes when I don't see any contextual reason to think that a person was not really as serious as the words they used. Eg. " Slice an onion as thin as you possibly can." (I spent 40 minutes slicing the onion... As thin as I possibly could, ie. The way I did it for science class when we were looking at onions through microscopes.)
This is true, and in retrospect these things are kind of funny.
However, I used to so strictly adhere to directions in a recipe not because I didn't have faith in myself to do well without the measurements, but for fear that I would do it better but not remember how to do it just like that later and end up forever longing to replicate an experience I cannot.
Life has taught me though that you can ever have any meal twice. There is no recipe for just the way the sun reflected off the clouds and shined through the blinds that day. There is no recipe for satisfaction happiness that people in the family happen to feel when they came home that day, or the budding excitement that buzzed through the air for your weekend plans upcoming.
There is no recipe to feel all these things as young as you felt that day.
When I began to learn this, I became more artistic in just a tad less technical again, in cooking and in playing flute.
I learned that technicalities helped me learn to play flute, but it's my desire to create something beautiful in that moment for anyone who may be listening that turned me into the musician I am.
And if it's not just okay but even better for me to play a song, the same song, just a little differently based on the way the moment feels, why might that not be so in the way I cook?
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• Be motivated by desire to create something beautiful, rather than fear of losing it. Keep creating; this is what matters on such a pursuit.
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