when I used to savor things. This seems to me to have been right after I got out of college. It may have been happening before, but I mark it then because I was taken out to eat by a friend who remarked that she loved how I savor things. At the time I would do it consciously for performance sake, but I think that instance caused me to invest in it more.
Thinking about it now, I believe it probably started while in school at least. I think I took flavor for granted growing up in The Boot State. I never even liked Tabasco until I had to deal with the comparatively bland campus food.
I bring this up...because I think I've lost that ability to savor...or am in a period of protracted separation from it.
And it feel like it's been since coming here to a place (geographically, metaphysically) that seems primarily to be about subsistence, survival. I eat the food I can get to. Even when I go to taste something, I feel like I'm wolfing it down, having to hurry up and finish it so it's consummation poses the least burden on my travel.
And things are hurried here.
At home/before here I had time to taste.
To savor.
Perhaps I should make a purposed effort to be somewhere* where that time exists again.
Or maybe there must be balance to stimulate action?
Hm.
(*Geo, though I can hear you already saying meta. You nerds)
Thinking about it now, I believe it probably started while in school at least. I think I took flavor for granted growing up in The Boot State. I never even liked Tabasco until I had to deal with the comparatively bland campus food.
I bring this up...because I think I've lost that ability to savor...or am in a period of protracted separation from it.
And it feel like it's been since coming here to a place (geographically, metaphysically) that seems primarily to be about subsistence, survival. I eat the food I can get to. Even when I go to taste something, I feel like I'm wolfing it down, having to hurry up and finish it so it's consummation poses the least burden on my travel.
And things are hurried here.
At home/before here I had time to taste.
To savor.
Perhaps I should make a purposed effort to be somewhere* where that time exists again.
Or maybe there must be balance to stimulate action?
Hm.
(*Geo, though I can hear you already saying meta. You nerds)
