Sitting down for breakfast together doesn’t feel like a big deal. Years later, it’s the thing you’ll wish you had more of.

Ordinary things do not feel valuable while there is still an unlimited supply of them. A rushed bowl of cereal with somebody at the other end of the table registers as nothing, right up until the house is quieter and the supply runs out. Value is easier to see backwards. That is not a flaw in you, it is just how attention works.

You cannot manufacture nostalgia, but you can stay four extra minutes. Sit down instead of eating standing up at the counter. Ask one question you would not normally bother asking, and wait for the whole answer.