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I Eat Alone
Eating is one of my highlights of the day. I love to sit down to eat a beautiful, plentiful and satisfying meal at the end of a day. And I do it alone.
I’ve long maintained that every day that we are alive and a part of society, we spend it compromising in everything we do because that’s the only way to keep your sanity and get things done. Which is why when I do something that is a hundred-percent mine, I don’t like anything less than getting a hundred-percent out of it. Eating a meal is one such thing. It’s an activity that is all about me; my food, my senses, my satisfaction, my time. I don’t want to be hurried or disturbed. I don’t want to hear about your day or what you felt about it. I want to be left alone with my plate of food. I spend that time looking at other people (if I’m at a restaurant. Yes, I go to restaurants alone.) and how they’re behaving with others around them. Or I spend it thinking about an idea that might have caught my fancy that day, or just thinking about life in general. The point is, I can do anything I want with that time I get to myself. And I like having that choice.
Of course, being at a University means I usually hurry through my meals because I have something important to do afterwards. But given the opportunity to have a good dinner, I usually eat it alone. Given a choice, that’s how I like it.
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