Ark-wired Tastes
As a yapper, I'd say having a blog feels golden. It's synonymous to the experience of a kid in a candy store. So welcome to my space. This is a very informal space, where we get away from how fast-paced life can be. You get to listen to me yap about my life and the experiences that come with it. This is me basically documenting my twenties. I hope you love it here, because I do!
For the first blog I thought why not get down to how the name of the blog came up. For starters, I just wanted to sound cool, okay? And I kind of do, lol. Ark-wired tastes comes from the word 'acquired' See where I'm going with this? It's like a homophone. But even besides that I tend to think that most of the experiences we hold dear to us are highly shaped by the community that surrounds us. This got me thinking as to whether we have things that we can call our very own. If you've been on TikTok long enough (read if you doom scroll enough) you've probably seen comments of things not being unique experiences.
Walk with me on this one. Think back to the things that you like. Your favorite food, your favorite pass-time activity or even your most preferred route back home. You probably order a virgin passion mojito every time you go out because 'Stacy' once recommended it when you went out together and it kind of stuck with you. You probably choose to use the same route going home despite it being longer because every time after soccer practice, you and 'Zack' would use the same route and he'd go on and on about how safer it was. You probably pronounce words a certain way because you were applauded for it in high school.
Having noted that we all have acquired tastes, (we're bougie here so we'll call them ark-wired tastes) do you think that these should change based on the changes that you experience in your life as well? A good example is your romantic escapades. Your previous romantic partner supported Manchester United, your current one supports, say, Liverpool. As a supportive partner who only enjoys the sport passively, by virtue of association, do you feel it necessary now to change allegiance from ManU to Liverpool? (Assuming that you are not actively invested in the sport) And in the event that you choose not to change allegiance does this mean anything for your new relationship? Does changing your ark-wired tastes based off of genuine connections mean you change who you are. Are these ark-wired tastes even inherent to your nature, really?
Hiiii. So, if it’s an ark-wired taste, and you are not actively interested, I do not see the need to change allegiance if any. Coz in the first place, you’re not interested.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, change is part of growth. We are an amalgamation of the people we have experienced so going by that, if you want to, you can. It’s still you.
Change is part of growth. That's quite profound.
DeleteSince we're yapping can I start by saying how happy I am to be in this space. Second, I don't think we should change our ark-wired tastes because they become inherently part of us. In the time we spent with the said people our ark-wired tastes were those that resonated with us. So I'd like to think they're parts of us we hadn't discovered yet, this is in the case of probably passion mojito. With regards to soccer I think you can choose whether to change allegiance or not but probably change because at the end of the day it's never that serious on your end
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy that we get to share such a community too. What stuck out to me is when you said that our ark-wired tastes are parts of us that we hadn't discovered yet, and that's so trueee.
DeleteLove this! Your persona is amazing. I think it's life and the very many things it has to offer. So, they might or might not be permanent, you associate someone with something and that's beautiful. It doesn't change who you are it's an addition to your story.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm glad that you liked the post. I agree, there's layers to who were are as humans and that's an amazing thing.
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