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stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2019-02-13 11:32 am
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Question of the Day
The question of the day struck a nerve.
questionoftheday asks: What is something everyone is "supposed" to love or enjoy, but you just don't? (question submitted by
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My answer:
I recognize that many, many people, people I consider friends and care about greatly, have strong interests in things and I respect their interests and can to varying degrees listen to and sympathise when they talk about them. I am in no way disparaging any of these things.
But.
The things I myself don't have any interest in are LEGION. They include: pets & animals; home decorating, repair, and buying/selling; restaurants; video games; most films; most television shows, including all of reality TV; cooking; fashion & clothes; sports; the outdoors; history; gardening; and most music.
I know, I know. :/
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My answer:
I recognize that many, many people, people I consider friends and care about greatly, have strong interests in things and I respect their interests and can to varying degrees listen to and sympathise when they talk about them. I am in no way disparaging any of these things.
But.
The things I myself don't have any interest in are LEGION. They include: pets & animals; home decorating, repair, and buying/selling; restaurants; video games; most films; most television shows, including all of reality TV; cooking; fashion & clothes; sports; the outdoors; history; gardening; and most music.
I know, I know. :/
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With you on sports (national & local) gardening, the outdoors, vast reams of music.
Hee, though I am a huge cat lover (which you probably have guessed), but I promise not to shove it under your nose! And history too.
But you are dead on your point: there are lots of things I am not interested in that my friends are, but I listen and sympathise when they discuss them because they are my friends :)
Just wish there was more understanding and less pressure for us all to "love" and enjoy certain things!
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I'm so with you on the home repair (except my own!) & buying and selling, as well as most TV and all sports.
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Fortunately, we only
and there will always be TEA.
(I share disinterest in nine of the things on your list!)
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This sort of ties in with the recent trope listing meme. There are very few tropes I actively search for, and there are a lot I don't consider my sort of thing at all - but (barring a few definite squicks) there are always exceptions to every rule. In the end I just enjoy well-written, convincing stories.
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