Of late I have been dining a lot with people that eat so quickly. I am one of those that eat slowly and I am shocked when people that I go out with finish their food so fast. I cannot understand how people can enjoy a meal if it is consumed at that speed. It is there this second and gone the next second, or so it seems. I catch myself saying, slowdown people.
Even in my pre yoga avatar, I would take time to sit down and enjoy my meal. I would frown at my colleagues who would eat at their desk, with one hand holding the mouse and eat lunch just staring at a monitor with a big frown on their faces. I simply could not relate to this eating habit, even many years back.
The first time I had coffee at a starbucks in the US, I remember thinking it is just no fun to have coffee from a paper cup with a plastic lid and then I notice so many people just walking with their coffee in the paper cups and having coffee while walking or talking on the phone. This sure was a culture shock to me. I was used to a sit down coffee or tea time. That was the only way I knew back then. And, this is one habit of the western countries that I have not made peace with yet or anytime soon.
Now that I dig yoga so much, I really s-l-o-w-d-o-w-n when I am eating, it is so much more delicious that way. I feel the others that eat so fast are simply missing out on the fun.
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I had a friend who used to love zebra crossings. He was so fond of them that he started to walk slower and slower across the zebra crossings, until one day he stopped right in the middle of a busy street, and got flattened by a passing truck. He was a devout Hindu, so he will be reincarnated. Perhaps as a zebra.