When oatmeal is love

On using oatmeal to mitigate existential aloneness

Oatmeal is comfort food. Oatmeal is grief food.

Oatmeal is the longing for undifferentiated oneness.

Haunted by the existential terror of separation, oatmeal represents a portal back into undifferentiated oneness, a return to the safety of the womb.

Much of human behavior is driven by an unconscious drive towards wholeness, endlessly negotiating the condit…