In style I tends towards the simple nondescript clothing. In foods, the spicier the better. I don’t just love movies but I like to analyze movies as far as how they relate to the books they were based on or how they relate to the genre in general. In reading I go more towards science fiction and alternate history type of stories and as far as music goes I’m an old fogey and like 70s progressive rock.
What I like is not mainstream. I don’t think I even want the things that I like becoming mainstream. I find that when ideas, concepts, and trends go mainstream that they start becoming derivative and stray off the path that they once traveled just to conform to the market forces and inevitably they lose their distinctiveness.
Thing is that most of my friends don’t like or appreciate what I like. But you know, that’s okay. They don’t have to. Lord knows I don’t like all the things that they like or obsess over either. Some folks get put off by that. Why do we all have to like all the same things?
I have people in my life from all sorts of interests in my life. Sometimes they enter my life through the slimmest of threads and only share one interest with me and we may be polar opposites on all other issues. But I don’t care. As long as we can share and discuss that one interest. that’s fine by me.
These acquired tastes make us who were are, they have guided and shaped our character and we shouldn’t be ashamed or hide them. Rather celebrate them, share them. But don’t get upset if not even one other person shares them. They are after all your interests.
I have come to realize that if I ever get together with that one special person in my life that I can’t expect that person to appreciate everything that I like. But I hope that she can appreciate that I do enjoy these things and that really that these are not big issues and that all that really matters is how we feel about each other.
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