Vanity
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Success At Last!
It is found in human nature, patience, vulnerability, and trust. Those three core values are what I find adequate to succeed. When I was a little girl and lived in my home country, Congo, Brazzaville, my grandmother owned a bakery, and she made Beignets for me to take to school. That was my almost everyday lunch. She started with the all-purpose flour and dumped it in a bowl, and I watched as it resembled a mountain of snow. Next, she took her measuring cups and tossed two-thirds of sugar and two tablespoons of salt. Later, She grabbed the active yeast and mixed it all. After she finished mixing, she cracked two eggs, and I watched the yoke collect the flour as it rolled down the mountain of snow. She then added a little bit of both warm water and milk. When she finished mixing the flour, she closed the bowl tightly and waited for the dough to rise for about an hour or two. In between those times, she would calmly wait on her chair while reading her newspaper, and I would constantly run in the kitchen to check if it was ready yet. Little did I know patience and trusting the process. I forgot all about the recipe, and I also forgot that this wasn’t my grandmother’s first time making beignets. It was up until she realized I had been in the kitchen too long staring at the dough and wanting it to rise, so she walked up to me and said, “As long as the yeast is in, it is bound to rise. Be patient and wait.” That’s when I began to see the bubbles forming in the dough as if it were trying to breathe. That’s when I knew it was ready to become beignets. Thinking about it now as I am old enough to understand and develop the meaning behind her words, it translates to, you are bound to succeed with enough effort implied into work but only with patience, Vulnerability, and trust.
By Vanity2 years ago in Motivation