My life during the pandemic

How cooking saved me during these tough times.

First 21 Days of lockdown :

Like any other person, I was happy about this lockdown situation, that I will be spending more time with my family. I will be working in my pajamas I will be eating whenever, whatever I want. My first week went very crazy because I had forgotten that I will be sharing the space and household stuff also need to be taken care of.

I fought for cleaning the dishes and who will cook and it was a big mess and to be true I couldn’t handle that pressure. I was relying on my maids totally. I felt that my life without my maids will ruin my marriage. There was no discipline in the house because we were waking up only before our meetings, we were binge-watching web series as if there was no tomorrow. and believe my first week was a living hell.

I cried endlessly I fought, I screamed and what not. for the period of time, I can say I was converted into a monster. And I realized how energy-driven it is to be a monster. It sucked all my energy, all my happiness around, and made me a useless person who you can’t trust during tough times like pandemics.

My second week was even worst, I was not born with an experience of “ How to behave during a pandemic or without maids”. But during this time I realized that this is not how it gonna be. I used to read a lot before so I resumed my reading habit and I came across a bit of advice that marriage needs continuous efforts, whether you are like it or not.

Until the lockdown, my life was taken care of by the maids and now it was all on me. So all I need to do to make things right was planning my entire day, plan every hour, the first thing you that you need to be very clear about what you gonna eat in the breakfast. and by what time you gonna have it, so according to that you need to start preparing your food and this advice initially seemed bullshit idea.

But as I had no better idea I followed this one, and the first time cooked obviously it was terrible, but that day I realized the value of living in a hostel, my husband lived his graduation and post-graduation in a hostel. And he didn’t complain about the food at all. to my surprise, he was enjoying every single bite. That day I seriously cried for being a chronic complainer.

That reality had hit me so hard that, I couldn’t sleep that night and I revisited each of the fights and realized I was complaining about almost everything.

The next day I again prepared breakfast, lunch, and dinner, This time I changed my attitude towards cooking. I made an effort to learn how to cook a particular recipe and put my positive thoughts while cooking.

I playing my favorite grovy songs while preparing meals. I used to listen to the podcasts, audiobooks, and consciously putting myself in a mood while making any dish. This helped a lot and changed my perception of cooking and cleaning the dishes. It made me utilize my time and utensils in an efficient manner.

I may sound an idiot to you, but this was the time I realized that managing a home isn’t a small task, but if we do it with li’l bit of care and joy things become very easy.

I started taking responsibilities which I never cared for before, and trust me it gave a super sense of satisfaction. I started reading more about cooking, the more the read about cooking the more I started enjoying and made more efforts towards conscious cooking, healthy cooking.

My relationship with my husband started healing and eventually, he started taking part in my cooking sessions. we started enjoying more, we started experimenting more.

He actually saw my efforts and appreciated my work more often. My food isn’t very perfect yet but that’s what my husband says….

“Don’t worry about tasty, just put love and it will automatically become perfect”

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