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This week I couldn’t decide whether to write about synchronicities, about the curious title of a chapter in a book by Colin Wilson(1931-2013), English existentialist, or attempt a dissertation on rice.
They all seemed like topics with potential, so I decided to put them on the stove to see if I could bring out some flavor, while cooking a paella.
Regarding rice, I wondered about the curious tradition of throwing rice at newlyweds. Apparently, it’s a ritual of Asian origin, where rice was a powerful symbol of life, which spread to Western weddings to promote fertility, prosperity, and abundance.
I have another theory that I’ll save for last.
Regarding synchronicities, or “meaningful coincidences,” I learned that there are “powers” outside of us that orchestrate coincidences, and somehow our unconscious can influence matter. This made me expand the quality of my thoughts, and see if at least I can materialize a good paella.
Regarding the title of chapter three of Colin Williams’s book, “How to Lose Friends and Fall Out with People”, I must say that it struck me as radically different from what one hears from so many of those so-called “life coaches” or “influencers“. In the end, it dealt with the personal and professional rivalries between Freud and Jung.
Anyway, since I’m not good at cooking or writing about three topics at once, I decided to go to a Spanish restaurant to eat paella with some good friends, whom I hope neither to lose nor to fall out with.
And I apologize if these lines turned out to be a real “rice with mango”(*).
Regarding that other theory about why rice is thrown at newlyweds, and to end at least with some humor so that all is not lost in this disjointed chronicle, the answer is as follows:
“Because if they get divorced, everything is Pa’ella (**).”
(*) In Spanish the term “rice with mango” expresses a complete mixed up.(**) In Spanish the term Pa’ella means “for her”.
