Do Not loose a Good One - Art of Picking

I found that I love telling a story rather than thesis and here I go.

I was 13 and was growing younger ( or older .. its complicated). My parents thinking of burdening me with at least one responsibility decided that I should bring vegetables alternate days. Being a young quickie, I used to rush to the vendor and ask him for vegetables. He would tell me he has two types of vegetable: one is imported from other places which always looks good and another is local. I inspected local vegetables when I visited first time and out of them few looked pale and I decided not to take them and opted for good looking vegetables every time.

After few weeks of this practice, my mother walked with me ( though I never liked, it used to take lot of time for any activity when she accompanied). We reached to take vegetables and she started selecting from the local vegetables basket. She picked them one by one, inspected and put in our bag. Finally, we were able to buy vegetables ( and I was not sure did we invested or wasted time).

On our way back, I asked for logic. She stated "Local vegetables are always more fresh and hence a better choice but we often reject them because either there packaging is not good or because they always have few or more pale cousins along. But this doesn't mean that we should overlook them as if we do so then we would loosing some good vegetables". I was though impressed in adolescence.

When we reached our house, she turned back to me and said "Do not loose Good one". I heard that, nodded head and was off for play in whisker.

But now I understand it. Its two things rather:
You don't always get good things by their brand or packaging.
We invest time when we look for something good.

And its always an art of picking.