Yes and I don't think anybody can predict something somebody else would like! How can that be, we're all so different! Even here where we are hardly strangers, I don't believe you could predict what I might like to read or eat or anything else! Those of you who are new, we need to hear from you in this, you're not strangers any more but we don't have 12 years of reading opinions, please do chirp in.
We can try it, if you like. I'll go first, somebody predict if I would like foie gras?
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Then you can ask your own question and we'll predict, let's test it out.
Would I like foi gras?
I think that study is flawed, or else influenced by something we're not being told, that's almost ridiculous.
I've been thinking about this topic a lot. I think some of you have been profound in your thoughts, and all have been interesting. Somebody mentioned the absence of pain. It's a truism that we don't appreciate while we have it good health until something happens and we lose it.
You can see sometimes when a movie star wins something or a team wins something and here come the reporters talking about the next project. Happiness is so fleeting, that actual triumphant moment will never come again. Other variations on that moment will come all happy, but that particular moment is SO fleeting.
I don't blame people for saying I just want to enjoy this moment. I don't think we do a lot of that, enjoying THIS moment.
I think one benefit in growing older IS the realization that this moment is limited and may not come again, and we need to be grateful for it.
As some of you know I keep my 2 year old grandbaby. I am conscious of every passing day that it won't come again and soon he'll be in school and gone. These days will not come again, ever. So I want to enjoy every minute if I can. What a difference in my own children and how, younger, I treated them, bless their hearts, I can see it.
If we're going somewhere and he wants to stop and smell the roses we do. I always heard that being a grandparent was different, I never understood why. It is.
But the change is in us.
I love travel. I get a lot of pleasure out of it. I like the excitement, I like making my own way and solving problems. It seems, for instance, harder for me to book a ferry passage from Boulogne France to Dover England than it was for Caesar to cross 2000 years ago. And about as long haahaha. (Frommers talks about a 6 hour ferry crossing from Calais to Dover for instance, I believe they call it "lousy.") hahaha Yes I've done the Chunnel, many times. I want to experience the crossing as he did and go to Walmer Beach and Deal, and see the white cliffs come up and see what the tides are like.
One woman traveler wrote that she got two trips: the planned one and the actual one which were usually quite different. I find that to be true and both are equally pleasurable. The hope and expectation of the first one and the little unexpected pleasures of the reality of the second.
So, what do you think? Let's do a small experiment. Would I like foie gras?
You to say, let's play a little______________ And then ask us your own question.
