My Saturday regime

My Saturday regime is fairly interesting and inquisitive to everyone except me.  I always try to get away from the places where I have to explain people why and since when I started.

I am glad that I have held up this form of 'fasting' so far, minus a number of countable times, two or three may be that I had eaten one of those products mistakenly. The funniest one was on 'Johannus'- mid summer festival in Finland, the time of summer solstice. 

It was a long road trip, we had driven approximately 500miles and when we woke up in the hotel room, I thought it was already the next day. I didn't realize it was late afternoon and we slept for 2 hours only.

So, if anyone is curious about what exactly is my Saturday regime and for what, the question that I get every time when I say, “I can't it's a Saturday”, I do not eat meat, fish and eggs on Saturdays. No alcohol either! So it makes me a vegetarian on Saturdays, not Vegan though as I eat dairy products. It has been around 4 or 5 years now.

It is not hard to avoid meat for one day, but I’ve realized that choosing a day particularly like Saturday is a real challenge. Whenever I find the invitation on Saturday, either I tell them ahead so there would be some alternatives for me or I do not go to the weekend gathering.  And, I chose the day deliberately so that I can watch how well committed I could be, or a test of my endurance. Does it sound ridiculous? 

Perhaps, it gets along to someone and it is not a huge sacrifice to pull in, but believe me it gets hold of a bunch of exertion to say NO when whenever one is cooking delicious 'pork' that you have been craving for a week, or when you're starving and you see everything has either egg or meat in it.

To a greater extent than a culture or religious belief or devotion, it's more about measuring my capacity to hold my temptation, since I am a hardcore foodie. As a child, I was brought up in a Hindu-Bhuddist family, and more often than not in our civilization, religion is something you inherit from your parents & grandparents. Since I belong to one of the ethnic groups in Nepal, KIRAT, we follow our own ethnic rituals and for us our ancestors are our God. We are not very religious family nor are we atheist or agnostic. Everyone in my family believes in Karma and respect humanity. 

Besides, if I have to remark the most challenging thing about this Saturday regime, it would be those times when I travel, 'coz then, it gets really tougher.  On one of my air travel, the flight attendant handed over me a non-veg meal, and instead of explaining that I don’t eat meat on Saturday, I told her that I am a vegetarian, and then came a new plate with fish curry and sometime, you just don’t get an alternative.

Now, it's more like a normal routine, people who are closer to me know it very well that I have this special reservation for Saturday. Few of my friends manage to cook non-meat products if it happens to be a Saturday, and then, home-pack my share of non-veg cuisines for the next day. I usually don't avoid Saturday fun though, I simply enjoy seeing people having fun and cracking jokes about my so-called 'fasting'. 

A number of times, I hear them say, 'she has been on this intense fast to get a good husband’ and in reply, all I do is mysteriously smile and say, ‘’TRUE! :D’’