Consume
I’ve always deplored conversations about consumption. This covers food you eat. But it also covers music you listen to. Anything where there is something you take in and there is nothing learned, only experienced.
The reason I hate these conversations is numerous. First, I feel compelled to agree with the person even though my tastes may be very different. IE: the person who goes off on don’t you just love it when everything is home-cooked! Yet some of the best dishes I have ever had were at restaurants. This gets even worse when people talk about which jazz musician they saw in person or what wine they were just tasting. Second, it seems like such a big deal to people. To me this is what I hear: I ingested some food stuff. It tasted really good! (pause to let person relive that emotion).
What I hate most about these conversations is the sense from some of these people that this is what life is about — as if to stuff themselves with food and ingest ear candy (but not produce any) were life’s purpose. It is a glutton’s conceit. I just find the whole area to be a commoner’s revenge- a way of saying- no I have no overriding goals in life nor have I given any serious thought to anything worthwhile but that’s not what life is about anyway. I’m trying not to be pompous here (but I know I’m failing) - but that is what I hear when someone will not stop about this or that food, wine for an hour, or ingesting that song, or buying that new cell phone.
Please talk to me though if you’re written a song or a poem, developed a new recipe yourself, have a new or different way of using your phone.
