Eating your favorite meal fast is like skipping to the end of your favorite movie. Slow down.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Speed destroys the part that was actually good. Eating something you love in four minutes delivers the calories and skips the experience, which is the same trade as watching the last scene of a film you have been waiting for. Consumption and enjoyment are different activities, and one of them takes time by definition. Fast is fine for fuel.
Eat one meal slowly this week. Put the fork down between mouthfuls, keep the phone off the table, and stop before you are completely full so the end is not a blur.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which food do you love and still eat far too fast?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- An early dog walk in the fog makes your own street feel brand new for twenty minutes.
- Watch the backyards slide past a train window. Thousands of lives as full as yours, three seconds each.
- Reading on the porch with the sound of the street in the background is a simple joy most people outgrow by mistake.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.