Breakfast and Habits

     Everyone is of course different but when we wake up one of the first things we do after going to the toilets, may be having a cup of coffee with or without biscuits. However, sometimes things in life happen and put us off our food. We are so nervous about an exam for example that we just cannot eat a single biscuit. I experienced that when I had to pass the exam for the driving licence. I remember I was so nervous about it that I could not have my breakfast even a glass of orange juice even if I really like breakfast... I also remember a scene in Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone by J.K Rolling (1997) just before the Quidditch Cup when Harry and Hermione are in the Great Hall having breakfast. But Harry cannot eat anything as we can read in the little dialogue (p.135; chapter Eleven): 

'You've got t eat some breakfast'

'I don't want anything' 

'Just a bit of toast,' wheedled Hermione.

'I'm not hungry' 

Harry felt terrible. In an hour's time he'd be walking on to the pitch. 

'Harry, you need your strength,' said Seamus Finnigan. 'Seekers are always the ones who get noddled by the other teams.' 

'Thanks, Seamus' said Harry, watching Seamus pile ketchup on his sausages. 

     So yes, a good breakfast provides the nutrients that people need to start a day. For example, nutritionists have proved that a child who has a good breakfast does better at school than a child who has not because it increases the attention span and boosts the energy. And when we have an important exam maybe the best thing to do it not having an important breakfast as usual but maybe just having a cup of coffee and maybe a croissant if you are French or if you are English maybe just a small piece of toast with some butter? Because indeed, it is important to eat before an exam because it may increase your performance on the test. 

    When life is sweet and easier without exams or important things to do, we can see that sometimes habits appear in our everyday life when we are having breakfast. People would have it alone or before the children go to school during the week and around the same hours (7-9) and with their family in the week end later (9-10). Some people would prefer reading newspapers or watching television or just having a quiet breakfast to awaken little by little. French people like having their breakfast at home rather than out, before or after the shower, as long as they can awaken quietly and slowly. It is not a myth, French people are often grumpy in the morning...SCOOP: here is the real representation of French people in the morning (French advert for chicory coffee). However, some other people need to rush in the morning so they just have a piece of toast or a coffee in their car... 

    An example of that in literature with the Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien (1937), Bilbo likes having tow breakfasts a day and 'smokes a pipe of tabacco sitting confortably outside by his own round, bright green , front door.' 

    But sometimes, especially on Mondays nothing goes as we want... Pink Panther would agree with that... This will be a perfect day!