Before I got into the university, my mom used to complain that my stews and soups were too thick. “Add more water,” she’d say. “It’ll finish too quickly like this.”
But something happened recently that made me reflect on how powerful adaptation truly is.
After spending just 10 months in school, not even up to a year. I went back home home.
So I prepared stew and this time, my mom said the stew was too watery. The same mom who once said it was too thick!
But I understood immediately. You see, in school, survival teaches you things. I had learned to stretch meals, to substitute water for thickness 😂 just to make food last longer. Not because there was no food, but because that mindset of managing had grown in me. And it had become normal.
So even at home, where there was no need to manage, I had adapted so deeply that I didn’t even realize it. My mom laughed and said, “You’re not in school o! Stop pouring water in my food, you’ll reduce the taste!”
But I told her, “Mummy, in school, taste is a luxury. We literally eat to survive.”
And this morning, that memory came back to me. It hit me — that’s what adaptation looks like. It’s how the environment rewires us. It’s how necessity teaches discipline. It’s how quickly the human mind and habits can shift when life demands it.
Adaptation is powerful. It’s not weakness — it’s wisdom
