#Eating

Mindful eating is a ritual of savoring every bite in the here and now, only to escape into other thoughts. While its supposed goal is healthier eating, it often becomes a mental trick for managing guilt. Counting breaths and chews deepens one's self-indulgence in a solo performance. Many tire themselves out recording every detail on their phone before they even taste a bite. In the end, what's truly savored is not the food, but the vanity of being 'conscious'.

Satiety is the brain’s self-serving lie that the stomach has reached its limit. The bliss that follows the ritual of a meal is often conveniently used as an excuse for overindulgence. The emptiness that should have been filled frolics inside like a braggart mouse celebrating its own confidence. Modern humans, in a democracy of taste, possess the unprecedented right to critique not only their own plates but everyone else’s. The obsession with that last bite is the true flip side of this happiness.