You are a tricky one. I guess, then if you really don’t want to learn, it’s probably not for you. And that’s okay. My husband can’t and really won’t cook. So apparently, he found someone who loves to cook. Lucky him. Sounds like you should pair yourself up with people who can cook and just anjoy the products!

LMAO!
cheers to the spaghetti burrito. that is just outstanding! disgusting and outstanding. :)

very specialized defense mechanizms (dont have time to spell check im about to get kicked out of the cafe im at and loose my connection even thought i am a regular! grrrr.) at work here. cheers to that! takes dedication and hutzpa and smarts!

yes voting for voting’s sake is hooey, i agree. but in the cases where SOMEONE is going to be elected or something is going to be decided i think it is imperative to voice an opinion. that’s me. i agree with alot of what you said too.

maybe we could tag team the therapist and go see him/her on alternating days. i could wear a black jacket and a shirt with a blue collar and you could disguise your self as some pink lily pads. we could go in 50-50. im game.

must go now… getting dirty looks that say “your time is up!!!!!”

It’s fascinating how talking about something so apparently grounded in the simple and physical like cooking can lead to an exploration of resistance to soul-eating acts of conformity vs. acclimation to what might just be basic (and thus difficult to avoid, possibly even rewarding) components of being a human being at this random point in the history of the “race” (kind of an ironic term I think)... Considering that 100 years is really a small period of “time” compared to how long this evolution thing has supposedly been going on, what percentage of the whole kit and caboodle has included a concept of property ownership, marriage, voting?

I have still yet to distinguish final viewpoints on many things of this sort – and maybe that is a good thing. I’ve come close to proceeding along “the expected path” in my life on a few things… Luckily though, albeit not without some heartache and struggle (but ultimately with reward), I discovered that my views on them were, as you so eloquently put it here, designed to break, causing my “socialized beliefs” to be not only transformed, but rendered permanently flexible. Great for freer living, but much remains a puzzle as there are still battles with the “my truth vs. the masses” thing…

And yet, there does seem to be an inherent human need for some kind of belonging and validation (not really the right word, maybe confirmation of things that leaves the ongoing re-interpretation option open?) that leads us into parternships, activism, gadget-collecting, etc. Are these part of our evolution? Will we outgrow them? Have we already, but we simply haven’t found new m.o.’s yet?

Ultimately, I think it’s the experimentation and the elucidation/growth/possible amusement or at the very least knowledge of your own capabilities gathered therein – the “watching how things in your hand can be combined” – that is of real worth. It doesn’t really matter all that much to anyone else what we do or how much that does or doesn’t fit into the prescribed societal patterns… it certainly matters far more to us than it does to the countless other souls worrying about what they are doing and how that does or doesn’t fit in. Self-centeredness may just be a built-in safety to keep anything we do from having that big of an impact on anything or anyone else… which makes the phenomenon of enjoying each other’s thoughts here that much more compelling.

I’m rambling. The bottom line is that I was actually thinking about the spaghetti burrito before I read as far down as this comment, and I was very excited to see it appear here. It truly is the crux of this issue – I hope it is widely available soon!