Don't Speedrun your Food

Doing a speed run of your favorite game is one thing. 

Doing a speed run eating your favorite snack is another.

You’re probably not speeding through a bag of your favorite snack as fast as you can, but you’re probably not taking the time to slow down and savor them either are you?

Doing a speed run of a game can be fun at times, but is a game better when you really take the time to play through it slowly and take the time to squeeze every last minute out of it or when you fly through it as fast as you can? 

Who do you think enjoys a game more, someone who takes 30 hours to get through the single player, or someone who takes 10?

The longer it lasts the better.

This attitude can be applied to your snacks.

Yep.

Think about this: When you’re snacking on a bag of chips or whatever you happen to have, why are you eating it?

I’ve given this some thought, and snacking while gaming, watching television, or anything, is rather pointless.

You’ll just reach for more whenever you’re hands aren’t needed for your game, for instance during a cutscene, or when you’re waiting to respawn.

It’s almost unconscious how you just reach for more isn’t it?

This all occurred to me while eating some Chewy Runts. I used to eat them all the time. But then I noticed that before I knew it, they were all gone. I realized I hadn’t even really enjoyed them. Eating them was just something to do. I hadn’t really stopped to take the time to really taste them and appreciate them. So in essence it was just adding unhealthy food to my body for no reason.

Shit.

We eat snacks, but do we really taste them? Do we really savor them? Or are we just munching them down one after the other without really thinking about it?

Well if you’re just doing it without really being conscious of it, what’s the point? There really isn’t much of one is there.

Why not take the time to actually appreciate the things you’re popping in your mouth? 

What if you had a bag of chips, but you could only eat one chip for every kill you got in your game. You’d be rewarded for your skill, and you’d also probably appreciate the chip more.

What if you took one chip, and took twice as long to eat it as you normally would? Wouldn’t that be far better than mindlessly eating the whole bag?

Consider this the next time you’re mindlessly putting junk food in your mouth.

Which people do you think are taking the time to eat their food more slowly, and therefore enjoying it more?

These people?

Or these guys? 

Try and get the most out of what you put in your mouth. 

(It's ok to laugh at that sentence as long as you don't miss the point)

Enjoy your snacks. 

Enjoy your game. 

Enjoy your life.