Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day so you don't overeat.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40 and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.