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Many small boxes (not of take out), November 2014.
Face it, most of us are guilty of doing this. You have been pretty darn good all day long. You may have used your phone to take a few pictures or look up directions, but once you sit down, you are lost. We are guilty of catching up with Instagram comments, answering work emails from six thousand miles away, or waiting to take a picture of your soup.
The important things is we're sitting down to eat a meal someone else has prepared and more than likely,we're sitting with someone we like/love/respect and we're not paying giving them or the food the attention it or they deserve.
Today I witnessed many tables where both parties were eating and typing at the same time. They weren't sitting at a fast food establishment wolfing down a burger to rush back to their desks. These were people who were dropping close to 80 bucks per person to eat lunch and they barely spent it interacting with each other or their food.
Why even bother?
I am just as guilty as others, but I am trying really hard to be mindful about this. We have a no phones the table unless the world is ending or the World Series is on. Is it okay to tune in instead of tuning out by shutting out the real world?
Is it okay to just thank the waitstaff who has seated you and brought you food? Is it okay to chew each mouthful of food and be humbled that someone went to the trouble to feed you?
Is it okay to just thank the waitstaff who has seated you and brought you food? Is it okay to chew each mouthful of food and be humbled that someone went to the trouble to feed you?
Watching other's today made me even more determined to stop looking at my phone for entertainment and start paying attention to what is going on around me.
How about you? Do you have a no-phone/device policy while eating?
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