Instant Gratification...Delayed

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

-Brian Adams, Author

If there's one thing I don't like to do, it's wait. And how I love to cook! The two don't go hand in hand and one thing I've learned about cooking is you have to be patient. You have to put love and time into what you're making. But I hate it! Especially when I'm making something for the first time. I don't want to sit around and wait. I want to make it and it be done and then I want to eat it!

Fortunately, if I ate so hastily I would probably acquire some food borne illness. Not desirable. And the meal would not be as it was meant to be. 

So the moral of the story is: when it comes to cooking, instant gratification is not always the best gratification. After all, delicious things come to those who wait...

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder, Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)

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