the mystery of the small paranthas - the paranthas theory

Once Geetika and Ashish invited their friends Alka and Anil over for dinner. After the initial hellos, and the chai-shai was over, the host made the call for dinner. As the husbands sat down on the well-laid dinner table, Geetika got into the kitchen and started making paranthas. Alka followed suit.

Alka noticed that Geetika was making pretty small-sized paranthas, and asked her the reason for the same. Geetika said that that was how her mother used to make them. A few days later, when Alka and Geetika met Geetikas mother, the topic turned to recipes and cooking, and Alka remembered about the small sized paranthas and asked Geetikas mother about the same. She said that was how Geetika's Grandma used to make them.

Now the grandma was at home, and Alka's urge made her go to her too to unravel the mystery of the small paranthas.

Grandma said "There's no trick or mystery involved here beta. When I got married into this household, we had a very large family and the size of the kitchen was very small. So when all sat on the table, it was difficult for me to keep up to speed with the mouths-to-feed with the big size paranthas - and then, as I said, there was a space crunch. So I devised these small paranthas that could be made faster, and did not require more space. When my daughter-in-law came, we still had almost the same situation, hence she picked up the habit of making small paranthas.

But where Geetu has been married, she has a large kitchen, and with a far smaller family to feed. But she has grown up seeing us making paranthas of this size, hence has gotten used to it. Only if I had such a large kitchen and lesser mouths to feed, I'd surely have been making fuller, larger paranthas. This generation needs to kick out of old thoughts n processes beta, think out of the box, and use their brains more to get more out of life. They can achieve so much!"

Think out of the box, guys. The small sized paranthas show the limitations we have brought upon ourselves - the fetters that we need to break, and make larger, fuller, paranthas, and make life more liveable!