With time comes perspective. This is a lesson I have learned over and over again in my 28 years. Something that you may have once held a strong opinion about can change after days, weeks or sometimes even years. You can’t see it at the time because you are so embroiled in the trauma but after the passage of time, you can look back on that occurrence fondly…or at least with less animosity then you had in the moment.
Something happened to me back in 2001 when I was going to school in Boston. It is something that I think happens to a lot of college kids after moving away from home. It started out as a good relationship but after 4 years together, it turned sour. I made the decision at the time to walk away, bury the past and move on. I never, EVER planned to or thought I would find myself regressing to that dark place I had worked so hard to pull myself out of.
In the past 6 years, I have been able to drive this completely out of my mind, forget that it ever existed. Suddenly last week, it was back in my life. Poats and I had a random discussion about this particular phenomenon. Just like that, I was thinking about it all over again. And I was intrigued.
So Tuesday night, I found myself face to face with my former foe. After a quick stare down, I decided that enough time had passed…I was willing to give it another shot. I pulled two of the Styrofoam containers off the shelf, paid my $0.50 and left with my newly acquired booty.
Just knowing it was in the house stressed me out. It took me two days to work up the courage to go up against The Beast. I mean, it had been over 6 years since we had last faced off! But last night I finally did it. I pulled it out of the pantry, got a fork and dug in.
The result….RAMEN is good!
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Oh my God!! Ramen Rocks....when you are a college student. I haven't had the noodles in years. I always walk past them in the grocery store and feel a faint nostolgia for the dorm room hot-plate. But then it passes and I continue on my way.
I got to the point where I hated it! But it actually is tasty. You should try it again. And where else are you going to get a meal for $0.25?!?
Mato and I used to alternate between Ramen and if we were being big spenders...Lipton Noodles and Sauce (those were about $.99 each and required milk and butter!). I might have to try the Ramen again. I don't think that I have had them in about 8 or 10 years!
I was a big fan of the Noodles and Sauce. But they were $1.19 when I was in collage!!
Seriously...it was tasty.
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