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8.25.2007 ||> Interesting, non-related thoughts
Someone told me the other day that once you love someone, it is easier to love them than it is to like them. Like is a more fragile thing, and over the years can disappear easily if not properly tended to. I feel like this statement is absolutely true. It's hard to stop loving someone, but if you're in an unhealthy situation, it's very easy to stop liking them as a person. I can't think of a more uncomfortable situation than when you realize you love a person at the same time you don't think very highly of them. In relationships, we should strive to keep the like, and then perhaps the love will stay strong.
I was in another discussion about why people eat the things we do, and the hypocrisy of people being okay with chicken and beef, but not dog or horse. When I was a non-vegetarian for a short time in the Peace Corps, I was offered horse and ate it. It tasted a lot like beef, but was saltier.
When I tell some Americans this, you would think that I personally murdered My Friend Flicka. The shocked looks, the "how could you do that?" It's a bit surreal, because otherwise they were fine eating steak, pork or chicken, and I hadn't had any meat for 9 years before that and 5 years after. Yet, somehow, I was the monster.
On a related note: I've been a veggie for over half my life span. Heh.
I think that getting a dishwasher may be the best thing for my relationship with Snuggles. I may spring one on him, and tell him to find a place to put it, because his not doing the dishes but every three days while I cook everyday is a hassle. I even offered to switch off weeks: one week I cook and he does the dishes, the next week he cooks and I do the dishes. Watching the wheels turning when I proposed it was fun - he likes to eat, but doesn't want to do either. Well, tough.
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