let's get right to it!!!
you'll note I did two today...why? because I can...plus...seriously I have soo many freakin things to put up...but hey i'm not complaining...I LOVE IT!!!!
you philosophers keep me going!!
PSYCH!SENSE question: How do you eat? or maybe...does eating represent the way that you are?
lets jive about this one...
PSYCH!SENSE tells me that often times their habits of eating have been ingrained by some outside force...if they were in the military..we could tell you, "you eat fast..or you don't eat" if they enjoy meals like sex...then damn..they are going slow...tasting every bit of texture and flavor searching for the perfect bite...hahah...or they may eat in portions...all the veggies first...then the side...then the main thing. Some eat just to eat...it's not anything special it's about getting it down...then you have the others are just eat fast because they don't want it to get cold....
Lets consider military bubbas..back in the marine corp we had something called the MRE (meal ready to eat) it was a vacuum sealed meal with carbs, protein, and dense dense crap that keeps us going. In fact, many times we would get all the meal (meatloaf, potatoes, jalapeno cheese, strawberry poundcake) and put it into a bag, break it all up, put a hole at the bottom, hang it from our shoulder and eat while making our patrol for sustained energy...imagine tasting the combination of Jalapeno cheese and strawberry pound cake at once...oh boy...but see in this situation our personality was based on getting the job done...so food was treated in the same way..."it gives me energy...it gets the job done."
Then you have the food experts that will take a bit of the food...roll it around in their mouth...extract the flavor from the tip of their tongue to the back of their mouth (giggidy) just to try and find the various tastes. Would we say that their life is all about tasting the subtle things? would we expect them to point out small obsessive compulsive things? they would also search for the perfect bite...the ones that will take a bit of the potato on the fork, put a bit of the gravy on it, pick up just a bit of the meat and eat it looking for the perfect combination.
Ever know a portion eater? what's up with that? they eat all the potatoes first, then all the seasoned veggies, then the steak. They eat things in order and some go as far as not even liking it when the food touch one another!
What about those that take yyyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrrrssssss to eat. They will get the food and let it sit there...they eat one bite every 10 minutes...then an hour passes and they are barely half was through. What does this tell us about their daily life?
How do you eat? philosophize on it...are you a portion eater? are you the speedy gonzalez? is eating a mission for you? is eating simply a way to get energy? does it take you yeeeeeaaarrrsss to eat?
If you've been reading my blog for a while you'll find that I enjoy finding the little things we do as expressive of the whole.
extra credit question:
hmmm...now here's a big question for the bold and gutsy readers...is the way you eat...representative of the way you have sex?
do you just get it done? just bam bam bam..ahhhh..
portion it? let me start here...work my way down...then back up ...then back down...
years? it's about 6 pm right now...don't make plans for the next 12 hours (seriously ...who actually does that)
EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA CREDIT!!!
for one week. Just one week people...just one week!!
I challenge you to pick one way to eat and consciously try to do it. If you're the type that always finishes before the other person..then for one week I challenge you to taste every bite and slowly devour your food...if you are not a portion eater...then I challenge you to eat one thing at a time for one week...by having yourself try and do something different it's breaks you out of habit but may help to challenge your own sense of how you see/do things away from eating. like sex...for one challenge challenge yourself to go at it one portion at a time as oppose to "let's just get it done" please comment on anything you noticed in your personal challenges...may be interesting to read.
Josh is a portion eater. He only eats one thing at a time, unless it's meant to be eaten together. It drives me nuts sometimes! Sometimes it's mixing foods together that give it that little extra umph of taste. Portion eaters don't know what they're missing out on!
ReplyDeleteWhat if you don't have a particular way of eating? What does that say about you?