To the land of Plenty

Off to the land of plenty and there are plenty of reasons I will find to eat and make merry!
The BIG MAC – there is something about this poor imitation of the original beefburger. The thing is – it satisfies every single time. I can feel the pickle on my tongue already and the whole family will head to this All American icon first thing on arrival!
The clam chowder at Boston and the Vietnamese restaurant at Harvard Square, the hot dog at Central Park – these are the things that good food memories are made of. And what is an early morning drive out without a Coffee Coolata and a BEHC sandwich from Dunkin Donuts? And the yucky candied apple at Disney looks so appealing that I have to absolutely bite into it. The sickly sweet Cinnabon is another must have. Not to mention the generous portions of steak and chicken! And the yummy ice creams and frozen yoghurts! And the deli cuts and cheese. And the Thai, Chinese and Indian also thrown in for good measure.
This feeling that I will not get to eat this food again never leaves me on a holiday. And the humongous portion sizes fit my greed every single time. Fatigue eating hits an all time high driven by fatigue from enjoying at the theme parks and fatigue from shopping too much! Then I eat coz I am happy and I eat coz I am angry about something.
The land of aplenty has gorgeous fruits and salads too – Come again? My mind switches off to those possibilities atleast!
So I will eat and come back many kgs heavier and look at the weighing scales in horror. And tell my self – I don’t know what happened!!!
And get back to trying to lose these kgs before starting to lose the weight I had put on last summer!
Oh.did I mention that I will also get two different sizes of clothes – one to fit into now and one that I will fit into six (eight, ten ) months later!

Getting away scotfree?

Does anybody really go scotfree? I believe not. Even when the law of the land does not catch up with you, there is a higher power that makes sure that life evens out. Has Warren Anderson walked away scotfree? Well our dirty politicians that took money to help the white skin (actually it could be any colour as long as the money was deep and smelt good!) and he has never stood before an Indian court to be dealt a punishment. Now despite the fact that media and others are baying for his blood, chances are that Anderson will kick the bucket before anything comes of it.
But he has not gotten away scotfree. Even if his conscience does not bother him, people around him would view him with suspicion and he would never have been above reproach. Maybe nobody spoke up in front of him about killing those poor brown Indians, but worse, they would have discussed it behind his back. And I wonder what his kids and wife thought of him. Surely it is not a pleasant feeling to not be above suspicion.
People such as these enjoy no goodwill. The Ansals got away lightly in the court, but a lot of people I know dropped them from their social lists. I have no positive thoughts for them and really, as a business family they have not gone anywhere. Tytler and other perpetrators of the ’84 Sikh riots are not a happy lot and have spent a lifetime trying to escape the noose.
Karma works – every single time. You only need to look around you to see it work. Justice happens and happens well. I am always reminded of what Rose Dawson said of the people who got saved after the Titanic sank. “Afterward, the people in the boats had nothing to do but wait. Wait to die. Wait to live. Wait for an absolution that would never come.”Even a non believer like me believes in this.