Creativity Quote by Lara St. John

There is a particular sting in the word "apparently" here: it’s the sound of someone being briefed on their own body like it’s a disappointing policy update. Lara St. John isn’t delivering a grand statement about health; she’s registering the small humiliations of restriction, the way a medical warning or a new diagnosis sneaks in through the side door and starts rearranging your daily pleasures. Vindaloo isn’t just “spicy food.” It’s excess, heat, bravado, the kind of indulgence you choose when you’re feeling robust enough to dare your own limits. Calling it out by name makes the loss vivid and slightly comic, like naming the exact friend you’re no longer allowed to see.

The line also carries a musician’s sense of time. “For the rest of my life, or at least a long time” is the cadence of bargaining: fatalism softened by the hope that this is a long intermission, not the final movement. That hedge is doing emotional work, letting her admit fear without staging melodrama. It’s self-deprecating, practical, and a little defiant.

Context matters because performers are trained to manage discomfort quietly; audiences want transcendence, not the backstage accounting of aches, inflammation, or treatment side effects. By choosing something as ordinary as curry, St. John lowers the stakes on purpose. The subtext: illness (or even just aging) isn’t only about lost abilities; it’s about the petty, intimate edits to a life that used to feel fully yours.