It’s emotional.
You can sit at the head of the table but feel invisible.
You can sit quietly in the corner and feel deeply connected.
You can sit among many and feel alone.
You can sit beside one person and feel understood.
The real question becomes: how are you showing up to the table?
Are you:
Present?
Distracted?
Grateful?
Defensive?
Open?
Food can bring people together, but presence keeps them together.
Cooking as an Invitation
Behind every shared meal, someone cooked.
They chopped.
They stirred.
They tasted.
They adjusted spices.
They worried whether it would be enough.
Cooking is an invitation.
When you accept a seat at someone’s table, you are accepting hours of effort and love.
Even the simplest meal — eggs and bread — can carry meaning when shared intentionally.
And when you cook for others, you’re silently saying:
“I thought of you.”
Where Will You Sit in Life?
Let’s expand the metaphor.
Where will you sit in your relationships?
Where will you sit in your family?
Where will you sit in your community?
