The meaning of life.......

Part of my cleansing/nesting process involved a clear out of the fridge where I found this rather wrinkled and sad looking pepper.....

Imagine being this pepper - grown lovingly from seed to become a plump, ripe, crisp specimen, growing up looking forward to all the joys of young pepperhood - maybe becoming part of a crisp and nutritious summer salad, or maybe even travelling to distant places to be part of a shared summer brunch somewhere.

Imagine then being forgotten about and left in the fridge, the life draining out of you by the day, left alone in the cold and dark for too long, only to be discovered too late, classified as useless and tossed carelessly into the waste bin never to achieve what your true purpose in life had been all along.....

What kind of a life would that be? Born with promise, died having contributed nothing.....

....that's why I hate waste.

And that's why I'm going to chop him up and freeze him. He should be good for using in a casserole or ratatouille or something. He may not carry the same nutritional value but at least his life will not have been a meaningless waste and he won't be deprived of his last vestiges of edible being.