breakfast: an anecdote

We eat breakfast every day, don’t we? Actually, not always. The reality is that we often forget about it even though it is the “most important meal of the day.” Just like this meal that has, what I would argue, a spread of the most nourishing and decadent possibilities, so do the small things in life. Yet, just like breakfast, we often ignore the fruitful qualities of our day-to-day. What I found similar about these two human experiences is their juxtaposing trivial significance. In this piece, I deconstruct my morning routine in Seoul and Toronto and, more importantly, their different versions when I describe them in the present and as something from the past. I realized the limitations of my ability to appreciate what was before me. Only from afar was I able to grasp the vibrance of my mornings when the only factor that changed was my perspective. So, I hope to communicate what breakfast could be for you. This is, “breakfast.”

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