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Lunch Is the Most Important Meal

Every once in a while, the debate about which meal is the most important resurges on the internet. Even though this is a seemingly baseless guess, I always argue that lunch is the most important meal of the day, not because of the health benefits, but because of the value it holds in my family.

I have always been close with my cousins, uncles, and aunts. Even though they are not my immediate family, I have always treated them as such due to our close bond and the close connections we share. However, without maintenance, this close relationship is bound to fall apart. Scattered around the dense and populous city of Taipei, how is it that we always find a chance to come together? The answer to that is simple: lunch.

Every Saturday, my family gathers around the round table, allowing us to share all our thoughts and chat about the week. It is always a refreshing yet exciting experience to look forward to, as it serves as a nice reminder of the love and care one receives from a bond as special as family at the end of a draining week.

However, besides the weekly family lunch, what I think is the most important factor in binding all of us together is the process. Every week, each immediate family plans out our schedule beforehand and leaves Saturday at noon blank for the upcoming lunch, prioritizing it above all else and making a conscious effort to make sure to attend. I think this effort is what further bonds us, as we all share a united attitude toward being closer and forming a tight-knit community.

Lunch, for me, is arguably the most important meal out of the three. However, it’s not the food that makes it important, but the efforts and thoughts behind it. Lunch is my family’s way of reaching out to each other and our channel to come together as one big family. Through lunch, we connect and truly bond together.

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Anna Lin is a girl from Taiwan who can’t live without boba. She wants to travel around the globe with a book in her hands. She enjoys reading fantasies and fantasizes about the world.