Peeling The Potatoes Yourself

A few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago, I had a friends watching friends marathon, since I had never watched the series before and over SBC in Boston got hooked and so bought the entire series package. anyways, a few of my friends came and I also cooked meat loaf and mashed potatoes. anyways, Brent Bailey was one of the friends who came over(which  I find kinda amusing because it seems to me that Brent gets more excited about spending time with me when I am cooking, than when I am not...seriously, I never see him more eager to spend time with me that when my cooking is involved) and when he asked me if there was anything he could do to help, I told him he could help me peel the potatoes. I am not sure whether I ever really thought he would do it, but he did, and he ended up peeling all the potatoes since I had not idea how to use the potatoe peeler I bought and he also helped me mash the potatoes. watching Brent Bailey peeling  and mashing potatoes in my kitchen was definely one of the highlights of my entire time at ACU, but last night I made mashed potatoes and steak(2 thin Ribeyes to be exact)and peeling the potatoes, cutting the potatoes, mashing the potatoes all by myself felt...really good! it was an altogether different feeling doing it all by myself,without Brent Bailey's help. not a better feeling or a worse feeling just a...different feeling. It really felt good to know that having Brent's help was good and fun, but that I could also do it by myself and do just a good a job on my own as with him. it feels good knowing that you can ask for help because you want the help and not because you need the help. cooking can be done either on your own, or with help. and neither way is wrong, but maybe if you are asking for help without learning to do it on your own as well, then maybe that's a problem. maybe its a problem if you want to be married(to a specific person)without also learning to live just a good and beautiful life on your own as you would with someone else. maybe it will feel just as good being in a relationship knowing that you could do just fine and beautiful on your own as with them, just...different ways of living.
Cooking/Life Lesson: on your own or with someone else, but learn to do it on your own so you don't depend on help every time.
and btw, it turned out SOOO good!!! those were steaks was amazing!!!