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Wie geht's?
Part 3 - What do I like? What do I hate?
I kind of balked at this question in Ryan Holiday's book. I dislike a few things, but I don't hate anything.
[That Star Wars thing. Yoda points out that "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."]
I've written about my likes before here. If you can't be bothered reading that post here is the Readers' Digest version:
- They fit into various categories like sport: Arsenal F.C.; Rochdale; Pitsburgh Steelers; the All Blacks.
- Music: The Beatles is the obvious one but I am a completist for a large number of artists and labels.
- Films: again Star Wars is obvious but there are many others like Once,
- Books: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is calling me for a fifth read through.
- Ephemera: The 'I love...' list at the back of my 2005 journal written while living in England summarises things I'd written about during the year:
- The weather
- The Houses
- 28 Victoria Road, Leigh-on-sea
- Scottish borders
- The trains
- The underground
- People (staff) at school - King John
- The Guardian newspaper
- The Times
- Weather forecasts
- Snow
- Walking - Southend/Hadleigh Castle/ Hockley Woods
- Leigh-on-sea shops at night
- London sun
- Fopp
- Picking one at random - here's an excerpt from 2 January about the Scottish borders:
- The border area remains a real favourite of mine. We stopped at the English/Scottish border - huge winter winds/ a rain shower and gathering gloom from impending night and the mists made this a real highlight! I can't help it. I much prefer autumn and winter to the heat of summer. Gloomy days and early darkness have a lot of appeal. Particularly when allied to the warmth of English houses and pubs.
Much like everyone, I'm multi-faceted and full of contradictions. But I know what I like.
Love and peace - Wozza