Blast From The Past – What Is The Saddest Meal You’ve Had?

CHEEZEZIA pizza corner in the now defunct Kochin Food Mall in the Revenue Tower building just past Marine Drive. I can never forget that experience of going there with my cousin one Summer evening and getting the oddest looking pizza ever. This was only my second visit to the Food Mall and the first time ordering the pizza, if you can call it that. We were a little scared but tried them anyway. A medium sized pie with 8 small to medium slices. We slowly picked up a piece each and ate them.

There were toast crusts of what seemed like rusk to us (if you don’t know what rusk is it’s a hard, dry biscuit or a twice-baked bread) – basically what they did was they served us a circular disk of rush, on top of which they added some cheese and – wait for it – the toppings that go with a usual BHEL PURI! A fucking bhel puri! The toppings other than the tomatoes were lots or coriander, chopped onions, tomatoes & Sev (a slight crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste). And ofcourse cheese! The sheer audacity to call that a pizza!

We managed a small slice each and then paid and left, laughing so loudly. In no way, shape or form was that a pizza and the people running it should have been in prison doing hard labour for even suggesting that it was!

For How Many More Years Do You Think Humans Will Exist?

No one can say for certain. I think we will live for many many millions of years, evolving as we go along. Who knows what humans will look like in a million years from now, what evolutionary changes will happen along the way but I believe that a species we will survive on and continue living and find ways to have that existence continue for as long as we can. I dunno about whether that life will continue to remain on this earth as I do think that the resources of the planet will die out or get depleted in a few 100 years or so but we can always find new homes on other planets.

Within 500 years from now, although I think it will be earlier, we will have landed on and started to colonize an Earth like planet and perhaps more down the line. Humankind will move on from the earth, hopefully having learned some lessons on how not to ruin a planet, and I think realistically we will need atleast 2 to 3 planets or moons to be our new home base as the population is already huge now and will only keep growing. Perhaps 12 to 15 billion by then. Or possibly more and it’s better to spread those numbers on few planets/moons rather than cram everyone on one rock.

On these planets the humans will thrive and go on to explore and colonize even more planets and moon. We will survive and thrive and meet alien species. Not all of these species will be friendly but we will fight off the ones that want to kill us and make friends wherever we can. And hopefully long before this happens we do realize that humans can’t be divided and instead we need to have each other’s back and support every human so we have as much success as possible.

Prompt from Journaling Prompts from The Coffee Monterz Co . Com