Food For Talk

Recently I was thinking about how whenever I talk to my parents we end up on the subject of food,generally what we are eating for dinner or what we ate for dinner the night before. For a little while, I thought that seemed like a fairly odd conversation topic. I mean, who really cares what we eat for dinner? It just seemed like a "why bother" sort of topic. But then I realized that I actually seem to talk about food with an awful lot of people who I don't see regularly. Dinner, lunch, or going out to eat seems to come up fairly often in all my conversations with my friends and family who live miles and miles away. And I like talking about it. So I came to two conclusions. 1) I am obsessed with food. This is highly likely, since I did decide that my family really does like to eat and drink and discuss what makes a meal good or bad. I was just raised to appreciate a good meal. 2) Talking about the more everyday sorts of things like meals makes us all feel a little closer to the ones who are 1500 miles away. It's like you are sharing a little part of their day and are nearer to them on account of it. You can picture them having vegetable soup for supper and feel good about it. So I'd say, if you don't talk about meals with your loved ones, I'd give it a shot. It's quite pleasant. Plus, it's very helpful if you can't decide what to eat for supper!