-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Daryl Stout on 03-29-19  06:30 <=-

 JM> I have a very bad habit of wolfing down my food as well.  At home I
 JM> think nothing of it, but when I'm with others I have to keep reminding
 JM> myself "slow down".

For a while, I was having to keep up with husband and son, both fast
eaters (never quite managing to)... then I was taking some elderly women
out for lunches, to encourage them to eat.... I had to slow way down so
that they'd stay comfortable and eat enough to say so... I'd just as
soon not be wolfing down my food, actually...   It's much pleasanter
to eat with appreciation... 

 JM> To me food is simply fuel for the body.  The reason I'm as happy
 JM> with a bowl of corn flakes as with a big juicy steak.

One can eat a bowl of cornflakes with appreciation as much as one can a
big juicy steak...    It may be primarily for fuel for the body, but
that doesn't mean one can't also take the time to savor it...  
 
 JM> When I was 13 my got my first pair of real glasses and could see
 JM> the world in focus all the time.
 JM> All my life I wore coke bottle lenses and hated them.  In my mid
 JM> 30s the price of contacts had come down, got them and never looked
 JM> back.  (I do wear glasses once a week while my eyes are "resting" and
 JM> the contacts being cleaned. 

My baby brother had similar issues with seeing... he got his first pair
of glasses... and could finally see the stars in the night sky... and
discovered that those big blurs of green were actually highway road
signs with words on them.... <G>
 
 JM> Oh, you mentioned being lost in a parking lot.  I never consider
 JM> myself lost, I'm just on an unexpected side trip.  

I don't get lost either... I just explore.... Sometimes intentionally,
sometimes less so... <G>  Afterwards, I'll check it out on the map to
see what might have led me astray, and/or to solidify the better
route that I just found...   

ttyl         neb

... I was never lost, but once was bewildered for 3 days - D. Boone

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