Ah this brings me back. Growing up, our family would always eat breakfast together before going to work/school. Dinner would be the same. Sometimes when my parents had to work overtime, I still eat dinner with my siblings. So eating has almost always been a group thing for me.

As I started working though, there have been a lot of times where I eat alone. When I was in a 24/7 shifting schedule, there are a lot of times where there are only 2 of us in a shift so one of us would eat while the other monitored things. Eating alone isn't a bad experience. I just wallow in my thoughts, maybe look at stuff on my phone, and appreciate the food. But I do think eating with my family will always be better.