“I savoured the last bit of the curry, because I knew there was no more coming.”
From Old French saveur, from the Latin sapor, meaning taste — which came from sapere, the verb for tasting something properly. Same family as savoury. Nothing to do with saving money.
Today, pick one ordinary thing — a drink, a song, the walk to the bus — and give it thirty slow seconds with nothing else happening. That is savouring.
💬 What is one thing from this week you would happily live again, exactly as it was?