Two Minute Noodles – Just Too Slow
Many people living in our modern world seem to think, mistakenly, that everything revolves around the word ‘instant’. They are looking for instant weight loss, instant success, instant fitness, instant wealth and so much more. For many even 2-minute noodles are just too slow.
Yet, when we look at how human beings and our world are designed, we need to question if this is a realistic expectation. Everything around us in the natural world is built on processes that involve consistency and time. If we look at plant growth, pregnancy, the healing process, the time from babyhood to adulthood, in reality nothing has changed since the beginning of time. And nothing we do can speed it up.
This is why crash diets do not work in the long term, overnight success takes years to achieve. Athletes, dancers, in fact experts in most fields got to where they are with years of consistent, regular effort built on marginal, exponential gains. The light bulb that we take for granted today is the result of the consistent effort of Thomas Edison to make an idea commercially viable, in spite of hundreds of unsuccessful efforts.
But so many people do not reach the heights they could achieve because they expect too much, too quickly, often with too little effort. In fact, I saw a joke recently that sums it up, “I wish I could just jump into the tumble drier and come out wrinkle free and 3 sizes smaller”. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
A last word about 2-minute Noodles. Quick they may be, but are they necessarily healthy and contributing to our long-term wellness? Or would we do better to view life in its full 80 year plus context and develop consistent daily habits that would ensure our epitaphs read, “His/hers was a life well lived”.
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