Trying new things is cure for boredom

I made a trip to Mom’s this weekend. It was only partly because I wanted to visit. The other part is because I wanted to bake. I have found several recipes that look appealing but have too much sugar for my diabetic husband. He doesn’t like artificial sweeteners so if I want to bake I have to figure out what to to with the finished product.
Last week I tried a recipe I had found in a magazine tailored towards diabetics. After the first bite my husband asked, “What did you do to these poor apples?”
I tasted the dessert and it was truly awful. Obviously those apples had given up their lives for nothing. He finished his but most of mine went into the trash.  
That’s the way it goes. Sometimes when I try something new it turns out to be a dismal failure. Other times it becomes something we turn to again and again when we want something good.
If I had never tried something new we wouldn’t have realized that fresh picked tomatoes were made even better when sprinkled with fresh picked basil and a little bit of olive oil. If we had never tried something new, we who grew up with rock music and country music, would not have discovered how amazing a real symphony orchestra sounds.
If we had never tried something new we would not have known how much my husband enjoys tutoring or how quiet the house is that hour or so he is gone.
I am a firm believer in trying new things. As often as not I fail miserably. But as Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” As long as I look at it that way I will keep on trying.
I get bored with the same old things all the time. I think most people do. Advertisers play on this boredom and use it to entice us to buy things we neither want nor need but believe that we must have. Last year’s things aren’t good enough. We must have new styles, new products, new cuisine.
I can usually do without the new styles and products but new recipes are too tempting to ignore. Most of the time I can tell ahead of time if a recipe will be to our liking but not always, hence the apples.
Life is like that. Sometimes we try new things and it turns out great. Sometimes we only find one more way that doesn’t work.
I have a niece who tried running. She fell in love with it and after completing a marathon in Indianapolis last weekend found out that she has now qualified to run in the Boston marathon. Her failure to qualify before makes this all the sweeter.
Try something new today. You might like it. Or it might turn out like my apples. You never know.[[In-content Ad]]