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Descriptive Essay About Eating

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"You just look really weird when you 're eating. It makes me uncomfortable."
A couple years ago, my sister saw me eating ice cream. That 's it. All I was doing was eating some ice cream. Apparently, though, my eating made her "uncomfortable." I didn 't really think too much about it. I mean, she didn 't mean anything by it, right?
The more I thought about what she had said, the more I began to think: What if all of my friends thought the same thing? What if everybody around me thought that my eating was weird, and they were just waiting for me to figure it out? I started getting less food on my lunch tray, out of worry that I would be annoying my friends with my eating. I would leave the room to eat my dinner. I had a period of time where …show more content…

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Most people don 't like arguing if they don 't have to. This is partially due to the fight or flight response ingrained in all humans. In an episode of National Geographic 's Brain Games, it was revealed that 90% of people choose to flee, rather than fight, when confronted with danger. The same idea applies to verbal situations. The problem with the flight response, however, is that many people have no clue they 're being rude.
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