Find your pinch of salt

Jaipur 064, originally uploaded by Pranay Rao.

A month back I decided to expand my culinary expertise from Eggs and instant noodles to something more. So I picked up this vegetable biryani paste which promised a perfect biryani just by adding cooked rice and vegetables and with some advice from Mummy dearest conjured up what looked and smelt perfect. Yet my first spoonful of food made me realize that everything was there but it lacked a certain harmony, the most vital ingredient - a pinch of salt.

Life is quite similar. You could have everything in place but you need to have that one little extra thing which makes it perfect, the pinch of salt.

Take this picture for instance. For the 5 seconds it took me to focus trying to block the sun on my LCD screen (No pro cam this. I don't even have a view finder), all I could see was how beautiful it would look when captured for posterity. For those 5 seconds all of life's problems ceased to exist and there was harmony. It was my pinch of salt.

So go ahead, find your pinch of salt.

Luv,

PR