We arrived from New York after a daylong slog through airports and planes and traffic. It was 10: 00 p.m. local time, but my body had no idea if it was night or day. Krishna was hungry, so I found some leftover dosa batter in the kitchen and started making one for her. Next thing I knew, my grandmother was by my side, commandeering the griddle. “Let me do it, ” she said. “You don’t know where anything is.” I insisted, but she won, even though by then she cooked with only one arm, the other still paralyzed from the stroke. Then my aunt Papu came in and yelped, “You’re making your grandma cook?” She was appalled. “It’s ten at night! ” Papu took over, my grandmother wouldn’t leave, and my uncle Ravi entered the fray. “Look at you, ” he said. “You’re supposed to be this famous food person and you’re making these women cook at ten o’clock! ” I quickly remembered how it felt to live with so many people. Every move you make is scrutinized. You get up and it’s “Where are you going?” You come back and it’s “Why are you wearing that blouse? I like the other one better.” You walk outside and someone calls from the veranda, “Don’t go that way, there’s too much sun! ” It was exasperating and suffocating and God, I had missed it. .Padma Lakshmi
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When Nelson Mandela said, "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall," he was speaking about the power of persistence. More specificlly, the power to get up day after day and fight all over again. That's what brings the greatest glory.
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