Today, while eating my favourite food, I realised it no longer excited me the way it once did.
“What happened?” I wondered.
I used to love it once.
But now, suddenly, I felt nothing.
After a few failed attempts to understand the reason, just when I was about to give up, the answer finally came to me.
It hit me like a feather.
Light, but carrying the weight of a heavy lesson.
I realised I had been eating this same food for almost every single day for the past couple of weeks.
I didn’t lose the taste because it wasn’t good anymore.
I lost it because I had overdone it.
And isn’t that how it is with almost everything in life?
We love something.
We do it.
Then we do it again.
And again.
Until one day, we lose the excitement we once had for it.
Like listening to a song.
When a new song catches my heart, I would grab my Walkman.
Download it.
And play it again and again until it fills every quiet moment.
But slowly, it fades into the background.
Then one day, it becomes something I skip.
Something I ignore.
And that change has nothing to do with the song itself.
So next time life gives you something exciting.
Something that pulls at your heart, do not rush
to consume all of it at once.
Try keeping a distance.
No matter how strong the urge is.
Remember—
special things are rare.
And rare things remain special.
So instead,
do something ordinary.
Do something simple.
And teach your heart to enjoy the simplest things in life.
Like having a simple cup of tea.