Food For Thought | Sharing the Things You Love

I enjoy sharing things I like with friends. However, there is a wrong way to this.

Say you wish to share a favorite musician with someone. If they say they've never heard of the musician, don't get angry at them about it, or belittle them ("OMG, how have you not?! You have like no taste!"). How is that ever going to make someone want to listen to the music you like? It is definitely okay to be excited to show someone new music (and also accepting if they don't like it, people are allowed to have opinions), just don't make them feel bad for never having heard of the musician.

The next thing is, if you have gotten them to share an enjoyment in the same musician don't make them feel bad for not knowing things about the musician. If they don't have all the facts it doesn't make them less of a fan, or make their enjoyment of the musician invalid. If you bother them about it or they'll just feel bad for liking them in the first place. If you kindly wish to share a fact about the musician that is fine. Don't attack them for not knowing something or making mistakes.

And lastly, don't attack someone for enjoying something in a way differently then you do. There is no such thing as liking it "the wrong way." The musician does not just belong to you. Everyone is allowed to enjoy them. For heavens sakes, just let people enjoy things.

I had to learn some of these the hard way, either being the one trying to share the things I loved with people, or people trying to force me to like something. Don't be that person. It makes you want to like something even less.

Thanks for reading my rant, and dealing with me still learning to write. I'm trying to figure out how to get my thoughts explained in the most sensible way.

Have a lovely day!

Sapphie M.