My friend announced the beginning of a new era: "healthy meal prep Sunday." Bought the containers, chopped the vegetables, portioned everything out with real conviction. This was the lifestyle change.
It lasted exactly two Sundays. By the third week, quietly, without announcement, Swiggy had returned to its former place in the rotation. The transition happened so smoothly that there was no single moment you could point to as the end. It just... reverted.
The meal prep containers, meanwhile, are still in the kitchen. Unused. Clean, stacked, and sitting there like a monument to good intentions. They've stopped being tools and started becoming decor.
And here's the part I find genuinely funny: nobody has mentioned the switch. Not my friend, not any of us. There was no admission of defeat, no "yeah I gave up on that." The meal prep phase simply dissolved back into takeout, the containers became a permanent fixture, and we all silently agreed to never bring it up.