{"id":284,"date":"2020-09-28T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=284"},"modified":"2020-09-28T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T16:35:38","slug":"turning-personal-taste-into-ideals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Turning Personal Taste into Ideals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[from Marsha\u2026.It was quite a revelation to me years ago when presented with the idea from Dr. Bob of the difference between personal taste and  ideals. It was harder than I thought to distinguish between the two within me. I forget to observe the difference in others most of the time because I\u2019m involved in conversation. But this week I had an opportunity to \u201cstand back\u201d so to speak and delve a little deeper when I reacted to dinner options with family.  Dr. Bob recommended that we look words up in the dictionary so that we can be more knowledgeable of their meaning so I have started with these definitions\u2026..]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the dictionary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal Taste<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A person’s taste is their choice in the things that they\nlike or buy, for example their clothes, possessions, or music. If you say that\nsomeone has good taste, you mean that you approve of their choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satisfying one’s conception of what is perfect; most suitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

           Observation of family for dinner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I offered to cook dinner, there could be no potatoes\n(that\u2019s starch) because it was set up that the ideal was the keto diet;\nhowever, fat was perfectly acceptable. Everything had to be organic (and who\ncould ever check out to see if no pesticides are used and if that was fact or a\nsales pitch). Same deal with eating beef, fish or  pork. Though I am avid against the\nmistreatment of animals, I recognize that I can\u2019t do anything about it. I see\nthat I have lived to this age without all these \u201cshoulds\u201d about food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has left me in a quandary whenever food is part of my\nsocial interaction. I have observed reaction within at the intense preferences and\ntried to see them as simply personal taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as I have pondered these statements, I can see\nsuggestion working as \u201cought to be\u2019s\u201d from all sorts of sources \u2013 internet,\nnutritionists, doctors, big business, friends, newspapers, magazines. Ah, who\nto believe and make an authority. Personal taste and listening to the body has\nbeen dismissed to accept suggestions which have then been turned into  beliefs of good and bad, right and wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so I found myself in this very situation this week about\ndinner. I value having my family for dinner. \nAs the \u201chave tos\u201d were stated, I decided to just observe and chuckle to\nmyself at the \u201cmust have and dos\u201d flitting around about every bit of the\npreparation as we were all preparing together in the kitchen. I, too, have\npreferences, but I decided that it was to my advantage and to the idea of\ncontributing to a pleasant mood to allow them their \u2018ideals\u2019 on our weekly get\ntogethers. I choose to respect their choices; and I discovered that in many\ncases, personal taste has not only become the ideal \u2013 but everyone around\nshould see it the same way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have many other days to eat as I prefer and to my personal\ntaste without comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere throughout the years, the idea was also presented\nas playing the role of being invisible. \nSo I see this as practicing invisibility  and a way to be a good guest here on planet\nearth with the culture as it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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