today you ate 12 pancakes.
you probably could have deduced what was going to happen if you cooked 12 pancakes, if only you had thought to apply your immense powers of foresight to the situation. but you'd bought 12 pancakes worth of buttermilk, and when else were you going to use buttermilk? is there even anything else that one can use buttermilk for?
but you're glad you did. buy 12 pancakes worth of buttermilk, leading you to make 12 pancakes worth of batter which you thought you could save some of for later, leaving you to cook 12 pancakes, which you also thought you could save some of for later (a cold pancake straight from the fridge is arguably equally as good as a hot pancake), leading 12 pancakes to travel by way of your half-disintegrated spatula straight from the pan into your mouth.
in fact, you now think you may have been underestimating the transformative effects of food consumption on the mind and body. food, you discovered (large quanties of pancake, for example) may turn out to have profoundly positive effects on one's overall well-being, especially when consumed multiple times per day.
one might think that we would have evolved some mechanism to be make aware of this, and indicator of sorts that it is approaching the time at which one needs to once again comsume pancake (or other suitable pancake subsitute.) unfortunately, not all of us have yet been endowed with such a gift, and are left to each day blindly consider the many dilemmas involved in whether or not to eat pancake.
today, you give thanks to the pancakes. they were very tasty.