I visited Bangalore in Air India, and during the journey, I noticed something which caught my attention. The lesson I took from the journey: do not waste food.
Food is one of the important things in life for which we all basically work for. Leaving aside all the wants and luxuries in life, food is important as it is required for our survival.
During my two-way trip, I saw my co-passengers wasting food. I am sure we all know how difficult it is to have food on board and the hard work behind it, from cooking, packaging, bringing it to the flight to finally serving the passengers.
While travelling to Bangalore from Delhi, a young couple was sitting adjacent to me. Since it was a morning flight, breakfast was served to us. It was a pretty decent meal—a coleslaw sandwich, vada accompanied by vegetable curry, a corn patty and a piece of chocolate brownie.
Honestly, I had the meal and the taste was reasonable, but the couple beside me took one spoon of each and then said “there is no salt”, “there is no taste”, “it’s cold”, and other things.
You can say NO directly before taking the meal; at least someone else can have it. I don’t know what people expect to be served in a flight; Butter Chicken, Paneer, Dal Makhani and Naan. Seriously, it really annoyed me. I am not judging anyone here, but I guess we all should understand how lucky we are to have food a couple of times a day.
A recent report by NITI Aayog stated that 40.5% of children between 6 to 59 months and 50.3% of pregnant women are anaemic. India bears a quarter of the world’s #globalhunger. 4 in 10 children are not getting proper nutrition, and children aged 0-4 years are underweight. (2/5)
— Youth Ki Awaaz (@YouthKiAwaaz) June 30, 2021
A similar thing happened to me while I was going back to Delhi. A woman and her daughter were sitting beside me. Lunch was served to us as it was an afternoon flight. What the woman did was really appreciable. She only took two things that she could eat and said no to the rest of the dishes on the plate.
On the contrary, the daughter took the whole meal and did not eat it. I guess the mother can understand the importance of food and she showed it too.
I have witnessed such incidents earlier too, but I felt like sharing it now because I have realised that wasting even a small grain of food is a sin.
I saw a post on social media where a father and his 3-year-old daughter were doing a roadshow. They were performing a balancing act. He was holding a long stick and his daughter was on the top. The only difference between the father and daughter was hunger. Be grateful for the food you are getting and try not to waste any of it.