Over the years, I´ve gotten into the habit of setting Sunday afternoons aside for reading and reflection. I head out looking for a coffee shop where I can grab a cuppa joe and read the paper or a favourite book.
This Sunday afternoon while exploring my new neighborhood here in Montreal, I came across an old friend -a Tim Hortons (TH). Long before Starbucks and the whole upscale coffee scene, THs was a familiar hangout, a place I could get out of my room and cram for an exam, or meet a friend for coffee and a chat.
Tim and I go way back. Over the years, I´ve stopped in at a Tim Hortons in the majority of Edmonton´s 83 stores, and in every major city in every province, except Newfoundland.
Today, I set up shop with a newspaper and a couple of books. I order my usual -medium coffee with two creams and an oatmeal, raisin cookie. Ahhh, the good life.... As I sit down to my weekly ritual I realize this staple in my diet is about to disappear. Gone forever! I´m surprised at how strong my reaction is.
A cuppa coffee and the newspaper are permanently paired in my mind. Like Pavlov, when I buy the paper, I can imagine the smell of a freshly brewed cup of coffee; when I buy a coffee, I start looking for the paper to read. What will I do without my daily "fix"?
I know they have herbal teas, but I can´t bear to look today....
How about you? I´d be interested in your experience or story around letting go of a favourite food.
All foods are my favourite!!
ReplyDeleteBut I have to admit when I did a cleansing diet at the recommendation of my nutritionist, which included no dairy, I really really missed my lattes.
Now I drink Soy Latte's instead! and they taste better anyway. Keep it up Roch... luv M.
I had a similar probllem with soda. Avoiding my studies I head to the pool hall. If your playing pool you just have to have a coke, or two or three depending on how much of your day yoour wasting. I decided to quite drinking the gut rot. Far harder than I imagined, its quite amazzing how something so simple ingraines itself into your mind. I suppose this is part of the reason buddhists stress conciousness. Hope everythings going well . . . SR
ReplyDeleteDear SR:
ReplyDeleteYes, the food itself isn´t really the problem; it´s what the mind does with the food. I´d say a good 90% of the struggles with this raw food diet has been psychological.
I´m finding out that food is a great way to test one´s level of conciousness.
All the best.