Turning the tide

One of my actual readings is Barack Obama’s “A promised land”. I am still at the beginning of his presidential campaign: to be precise when the tides turned in his favor after winning the primaries in Iowa. So please do not spoiler me at the end.

The book itself is an old-fashioned and nowadays rare hardcover printed edition, in the original language; one of that books that you can smell, feel in your hands because of its weight and dwell into completely, sunken in a rocking chair, with just a soft yellow light in the darkness of my personal refuge. Obama has always been a charming speaker and an excellent writer: his language is plain, but rich at the same time, and reading in English you can really appreciate it. The whole experience is so far incredibly pleasant.

And since this newsletter is about food, but is becoming something clearly more intimate, I would like to share my main takeaways from the book so far.

The first one is that if you want to achieve anything great in life you have to really enjoy the process: the process will be most probably painful and stressful, as much as it will exciting and empowering in other moments. But to endure, you have to enjoy it. The result is a consequence of a right process and it will never be fulfilling as the path to achieving it.