Monday, June 11, 2007

Another Duality - Just Eat Already!

Life if full of dualities, ying and yang, the haves and the have nots, Hatfields and McCoys , Cubs fans and White Sox fans. Recently thought while having lunch with a friend I stumbled into another duality – those who eat to live and those who live to eat. If you have been reading this at all there really is little question as to which one I am – me, the girl who schedules her life around the next dining event – I view time as those things in between breakfast, lunch and dinner, I derive sheer joy from thinking about a meal, reading recipes, planning the food at an event – I enjoying thinking about food as much as I enjoy eating it (on occasion the actual eating itself wins out). However, in this lunch with my friend who actually confessed that she totally forgets to eat sometimes then wonders why she feels like she’s going to pass out at 3p.m. , I fully began to realize what the lives of those others, those non-joy eaters, must be. Food is something that just happens to pop up in their path as something that will help them continue on and while I find this concept totally foreign, I think it would be interesting to go through life in this way. I would love to do a further study and see if these ‘eat to livers’ are planners, I’m inclined to think that they live more in the moment because unlike me they are obviously not planning the next meal, although I find this somewhat ironic as I am very in the moment when I am eating a meal!
So one of my new missions is to be more proactive with all those eat to livers that I know – no longer will you be faint with hunger because you’ll have lunch plans with me!