catsmeat potter-pirbright ([info]fileg) wrote,
@ 2009-07-16 06:08:00
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Writer's Block: Childish Pleasures

Name something you love but feel like you should have grown out of by now.


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Boy, is that the wrong question to ask me.

I don't believe you should ever outgrow what you love.

And I *especially* believe you should never be forced or coerced or teased into giving up or being embarrassed about what you love.

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[info]shebit
2009-07-16 10:58 am UTC (link)
A few years ago a guy told me I was young and would grow out of loving Monet. No thanks. I happen to like loving Monet, and have no plans to stop.

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[info]fileg
2009-07-17 12:18 pm UTC (link)
God, I have no tolerance for people who think they are the arbiters of taste.

Or, as we say here: de gustibus non est disputandum, ainta hey?

Edited at 2009-07-17 12:18 pm UTC

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[info]ithilwen
2009-07-16 01:59 pm UTC (link)
That, I think, is a realization many people reach in middle age. I know I spent my 20s and 30s vaguely embarrassed that I enjoyed comic books, which was stupid. Why should I have been embarrassed by such a little thing?

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[info]fileg
2009-07-17 12:17 pm UTC (link)
Not in my case. I've never been very good about caring what other people think, as long as it wasn't hurting anyone. I remember way back in my teens getting "the stern look" for laughing out loud at an uncle (one who paints himself colors and goes to sporting events) who was making fun of me for reading Science Fiction.

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[info]redbyrd_sgfic
2009-07-16 04:25 pm UTC (link)
I saw the greatest thing at a model railroad show-- a bumper sticker that said, "you don't stop playing with trains because you get old, you get old because you stop playing with trains"...applicable to *so* many hobbies and passions!

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[info]fileg
2009-07-17 12:20 pm UTC (link)
It's so true, too - the minute you stop learning, and doing what you love it's all down the slippery slope.

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[info]cousinshelley
2009-07-16 04:58 pm UTC (link)
I don't believe you should ever outgrow what you love.

Hear, hear. I keep this quote on my profile page:

“Some say a host of horses, some say an army of infantry, and some say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is whatever one loves." -- Sappho

I can't think of anything that I really, truly loved as a child that I don't still at least like now.

And I *especially* believe you should never be forced or coerced or teased into giving up or being embarrassed about what you love.

Very recently I read about a boy who got rid of all of some kind of comic book. I don't remember if it was literature, non-fiction, a livejournal post or where the hell I read it, but it really struck me. I think it was that his friends thought his interest in some specific comic or character was silly. So he got rid of it all. And then a few months down the road, realized he was absolutely miserable and I seriously depressed to the point of distraction because of it and decided to say 'screw it.' I love what I love and that's okay. And he started collecting whatever it was again, and felt beter.

Man, I wish I could remember where I'd read it.

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[info]fileg
2009-07-17 12:21 pm UTC (link)
What a beautiful quote!

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