At a Quest's End Part TWO

I just looked over my final BLOGGING assignment and realized that I didn't answer specific questions that my English Professor asked us to answer, so here it is.

Either way, every single one of you has a period of time that you can look at and analyze.  You can take a critical look at what you did, what you didn't do, why its important, and how it could have been different.  You can conside
r how your small act of bravery (because change is a scary thing), has helped you change the world in some small way. 

In your last blog entry this week, I want you to analyze the success of your quest.  Take a look at how you succeeded, how you failed, and what those things mean.  Think about what all of this means for a reader.  What lesson can you draw from your experience that other people can learn from? 

I will start off with my failures. From the beginning I set myself up for failure with such a difficult quest. Mid week into the quest, I decided I needed a change. I couldn't go on with a quest that I couldn't perform. I didn't want to sit there and lie about what I was doing and how I was doing it. That would just make something difficult into a relentless task that I didn't want to go on.

From that point, I switched my quest to specifically trying different foods that I never have tried, with the different letters of the alphabet. I must say besides the "blogging daily" I did a pretty darn good job if I do say so myself. I am still coming out with approximately 27-28 blogs, which I believe we needed somewhere between 25-30, so I am hoping that I still did well on that aspect. As far as trying the new and different foods, I didn't fail the least bit.

Knowing that I was able to succeed in something, putting my mind to it, and getting it done, is a wonderful thing. Sometimes we all get too caught up in the hustle and bustle of every day life, and don't take time to try something new. I am actually going to continue trying new food on a regular basis.  I don't know if I will be able to do it like I did with the quest, and hit all the alphabet, but I will say that I will definitely try new meals when going out with my husband, and look into new recipes for the family. They enjoyed this as well! :) 

The lesson that I can draw from the experience, that others can take from is, TRY IT, YOU MIGHT LIKE IT!! This seems so catchy to me because we watch a lot of Nick Jr. in our home and are always pushing new foods on our two year old. But really... If YOU won't eat it, how could you expect your TWO year old to eat it? If our eyes are wide open to the good, the bad and the ugly, we need to be able to distinguish between the two and let our children grow up with more tastes than we had. The world is FULL of wonderful foods... we need to be able to get out there and try them. There's too much that we are missing out on.