Go See Something You Have No Interest in

Because you don’t already know everything you like

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‘You don’t know until you try it,’ I heard a mother saying to her child over the weekend.

It’s a familiar sentence. It’s frustrating for both parent and child. The parent can’t fathom why the child decides to dislike something apropos of nothing and the child can’t understand why they have to be uncomfortable.

We hear it so often in reference to children, that it’s easy to forget that we should absolutely be applying to ourselves too.

Once we get into our twenties and thirties we’ve done a lot. We’ve tried a lot of food, we’ve formulated our preferences. We know what our kind of music is and the types of movies we like to watch.

We know what sports and games we like. What shops we like. What clothes and styles we like.

We know.

Well…we think we know.

But there’s no parent standing over our shoulders saying, ‘go on, you don’t know until you’ve tried it.’

And to be honest, maybe we still need them.

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