May 21, 2010 9
Because I Can
The story goes something like this …
For years a young daughter watched her mother prepare dinner for the family. This night the mother was cooking a roast and cut the tail end of it completely off and tossed in the garbage. Out of curiosity, the daughter asked a few years later “why do you do that mom? Cut off the end of the roast and toss it in the garbage?”
“Because …” her mother began. “it doesn’t fit in the pot to cook it!” “Hm…” the daughter though. In a way it made sense, but what a waste of the rest of the roast.
The daughter grew up and was a good cook just like her mother. When it came to cooking a roast, she did exactly the same thing that her mother did – cut off the end so it would fit in the pot. She did what she learned by watching, listening, and following… The daughter cooked the way it had always been done in her family.
One holiday, the daughter’s family went to her mother’s house to celebrate. Her mother was cooking a roast. As usual the daughter was in the kitchen helping her mother cook. But this time she did not cut of the end and toss it in the garbage. Instead she placed it in a larger shallow pan that she had always had. Perplexed, the daughter was confused about this new method. She had always cooked the roast the same way for years the way her mother did. So she asked her mother ..
“Mon, that’s not the way we cook our roasts! Why have you changed the method?”
The mother turned to her daughter and said lovingly, “Because I can …”
How often have we just accepted a certain way to do things, never questioning if there was a different or better way of doing it because that’s the way it’s always been done? How often have we been “stuck” in doing the same thing over and over again? How often have we stopped the status quo to challenge ourselves, to do more – breaking the routine for something better?
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