I was thinking about this the other day.   Mainly becuase I think personally you can take a few different meanings out of this.  For one, we can go with the standard answers of, yes I enjoy food and enjoy all the time it takes to make a nice meal.  Taking the time to relax with the family or others and get the most out of the hour or two that you spend on it. On the other hand, some just like to eat something to get them from hunger pain to the next.  Quick bite to eat here and there.   It is so much easier to go grab a quick bite, spend like 15 minutes and be done with it.

Let us take a deeper look into this.   In today's fast paced world, many people forgo the enjoyment of taking the time to eat their 'food'.  When i was growing up, it was a requirement for us to have a family dinner.  We'd sit down for dinner every night and have the meat, potatoes, vegatable, etc. kind of meal.  This stemmed from the way our parents were brought up and this was the way to do things.  Sure there was fast food restaurants, but it was never really an option.  The time we spent together eating, was time we wouldn't gain back.  The seconds, minutes, hours spent were gone.  Were they worth it?

'food' is really nothing more than a generic term for anything in life that you find interesting or are working on or anything that consumes our time during any given day.  Do we utilize the time that we have everyday in meaningful ways? do we utilize that time and dedicate periods of it to the people that we should? 

 I myself, know all to well that we get caught up in our day to day lives to not take a step back and appreciate the finite amount of time we have to enjoy the world around us?  So it is important that we utuilze every moment we get.  There is this prhase 'every second counts' that we use at work.  That on any given day you have 84,600 seconds every day.  How are you oging to utilize each and every second you have for this day?  what are you going to accomplish? what are you going to do today, to make those seconds meaningful.  something to think about.  The time it took me to write this, what else could I have been doing?  Could I have been reading a book to my child, expanding their love of reading? Could I be spending this time learning a new skill?  You just never know till you take a moment to think about how you are spending your time.  Enjoy every second of the day as they are precious and you can't get them back.

NOTE: So I was talking with an English friend of mine this evening, sir tigerfish, he read my little post here today and said that I ended up sounding like the 'Jerry Springer' thought of the day. hehe.  Not so sure that was what I was trying to do.  May have to adjust the way am writing these up. I thought that was pretty hilarious though. :)