Breakfast with Justin: A Retrospective

I´ve shared a goodly number of breakfasts with Justin in the past 7 weeks or so and I feel they have been worthy of comment.

Breakfast often finds Justin at his most raw. He can be at turns voracious, inquisitive, and practical, but in general, there is a certain optimism that he carries with him to the breakfast table that belies the indifference that breakfast zombies like most of us apply to our morning meal. Just take a look at this photo where he´s poised for this remorseless attack on his fruit salad.

The aforementioned optimism can sometimes lead him to do some over-ordering, but when that happens, he just assumes resposibility for his over-order and goes after it. Take the other day in Trujillo when he ordered scrambled eggs, juice, coffee, toast, and a pancake wih bananas--he could´ve balked when he saw the size of the banana-filled panqueque they brough him (pictured below), but instead he went straight after it. Like a proper existentialist, he accepts that ordering mistakes will be made, but he nonetheless builds meaning out of those decisions by assuming full responsibility for them. As Justin once said a few weeks ago "Morning is a terrible time to have to make decisions about breakfast", but that knowledge, far from paralyzing him, sends him charging into the maelstrom of desayuno with extra vim.