I just had a close encounter with something very normal in an everyday life but surely it felt totally eerie and peculiar this time…Remember all the movies of witchcraft, which we used to watch as kids and adolescents. Movies like “The Craft”, “Stardust”, “Practical Magic” and who can forget the top grossing and all-time favourite “The Harry Potter” series. One common thing amongst them all was the “witches’ cauldron”, in which they would put a variety of really strange herbs and potions and other unthinkable, gruesome ingredients to stir up a storm and sometimes use it like a mirror to see into the future. But we all know (or we at least, believe) that such a thing does not exist. Right? Absolutely!!
I too thought the same until I came across something funny yet very interesting yesterday evening when I went into the kitchen to make some soup for myself. It was getting a bit cold and misty outside and I felt that a cup of Hot and Sour Vegetable soup would surely help me from dozing off at that odd hour. Now this was one of those ready to eat/drink stuff that you find stacked up in the stores nowadays. I took a steel saucepan and filled it with some water and added the contents of the packet into it and started stirring. Once it was mixed smoothly, I lit up the wok and put the saucepan on simmer. Since, I was totally out of work, with plenty of time to wile away, I started stirring the contents in the saucepan as it slowly started to get heated up and changed from opaque to translucent. I stopped stirring and turned up the heat by a notch…those of you who have some experience with ready to eat stuff (soup specially) will know that the vegetables that look so real in that delicious cup of warm soup, look like mere dust(green, orange and yellow in color) when you put them in the saucepan. This patch of vegetables (cut weeks ago, frozen with preservatives and artificial colouring agent) spread itself out on the entire circumference of the saucepan. To me, it looked like a lush green surface with flora and fauna all over it. “Pretty Pretty!!” I thought to myself. But as soon as the soup came to a boil the beautiful patch of fauna I had been admiring started shrinking rapidly and in a matter of seconds it was lost in some hot bubbling soup. “Whoopsie daisy!!” I thought, “did I just see the apocalypse or the end of the earth as some scientists claim?”. That is what they say right? There will be floods, tsunamis and volcanos erupting as a result of the earthquakes, and many such theories, and all this since the climate and the environment around us is changing at a rate unimaginable. Is this the future of the earth that I just witnessed in my cauldron (read saucepan) with unsuspecting ready to eat soup powder and water in it conveying to me a message that really needs to be taken into consideration.
Well, for me these five minutes were really eerie, call it the effect of delusion that the fever has caused in me, or the medicines or simply a thought of the “Global Warming” phenomena working at the back of my mind, courtesy movies like “2012”, “Wall-E”, etc. that has managed to give fuel to my imagination. Whatever happened, it really worked in making me do my bit to save the world from turning into a big saucepan of boiling soup!
Friends who would like to experience this out of the world “Look into Your Cauldron and See the Future” experience, please let me know, so that I can give you the right specifications of the soup powder, quantity of water, and the exact size of saucepan to be used, for you to bring about a successful experiment. It surely is Souper-natural!!
Disclaimer: I am still recuperating from the viral!! ;)
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