Jingxuan
Dec 3, 2017
Undergraduate / The bland food reflects my bland, although exciting, life - CWM Essay [2]
I love food, plain food. Unlike most people who prefer salad with dressings, I believe salad dressings are merely what spoil the original flavor of simple mixed vegetables. From me, the dipping sauce station in any hot pot restaurant gets no attention, and steak sauce is totally unnecessary. And for me, boiled vegetables without any seasonings best satisfy my taste buds.
People call my taste "bland" or "boring" but I disagree. I love the natural, simple flavors of food. I actually think over-seasoned food is bland and boring. In doing so, the original flavors are masked, becoming identical. And once people become used to heavily seasoned food, these original flavors will seem too insipid for them to sense and appreciate.
A lot of people approach life in this way. They want to mask raw, unrefined experience and prefer to use others' over-interpreted experiences to understand their own. But in doing so their experience of life is limited. They end up creating a uniformity that they are then unable to break out of.
I welcome original flavors. Bland as they may seem, they in fact preserve the precious inherent diversity of food that is well worth appreciating. By tasting the original flavors, I reach directly into the real natural simplicity which the food is born with.
In my life, I want to open myself up to new experiences so as to show myself real and multiple perspectives, sweet or sour, fresh or bitter, without any masks.
Here is my first draft for my College of William and Mary essay. I'm supposed to write about 500 words but currently I've only got about 250. So could anyone give me suggestions on how I can expand it, like, where I can/should add anything, etc. Besides, any other comments are also welcomed.Thx a lot!
"What else makes you unique and colorful?"
I love food, plain food. Unlike most people who prefer salad with dressings, I believe salad dressings are merely what spoil the original flavor of simple mixed vegetables. From me, the dipping sauce station in any hot pot restaurant gets no attention, and steak sauce is totally unnecessary. And for me, boiled vegetables without any seasonings best satisfy my taste buds.
People call my taste "bland" or "boring" but I disagree. I love the natural, simple flavors of food. I actually think over-seasoned food is bland and boring. In doing so, the original flavors are masked, becoming identical. And once people become used to heavily seasoned food, these original flavors will seem too insipid for them to sense and appreciate.
A lot of people approach life in this way. They want to mask raw, unrefined experience and prefer to use others' over-interpreted experiences to understand their own. But in doing so their experience of life is limited. They end up creating a uniformity that they are then unable to break out of.
I welcome original flavors. Bland as they may seem, they in fact preserve the precious inherent diversity of food that is well worth appreciating. By tasting the original flavors, I reach directly into the real natural simplicity which the food is born with.
In my life, I want to open myself up to new experiences so as to show myself real and multiple perspectives, sweet or sour, fresh or bitter, without any masks.
Here is my first draft for my College of William and Mary essay. I'm supposed to write about 500 words but currently I've only got about 250. So could anyone give me suggestions on how I can expand it, like, where I can/should add anything, etc. Besides, any other comments are also welcomed.Thx a lot!
