Each one of us has our own tastes and preferences for everything on earth. They are “our” preferences. But at times we fail to see others’ preferences objectively. What we like is sometimes so important to us that we wrinkle our nose at the other person’s choice of the same stuff. We are thinking, “How can you even think of owning that stuff? It is horrible. The colour is gawdy. You should have gone for a different colour (meaning the colour that suits my taste)”. We cannot seem to understand how the other person made the choice that is not to your liking. In the process, we have hurt the person and made them conscious of their choice.
It is bad etiquette
and insensitive to express a dislike to the food that the other person is
eating. We have to understand that her palette is different from ours. We are
putting up a selfish behaviour even if we comment that we don’t like the stuff.
There has to be a “live and let live” philosophy. “You can have your potatoes
everyday – I won’t comment on the ill-effects of doing so. Do not comment on me
enjoying my bottle gourd, just because you don’t enjoy the taste and the
texture. I don’t even want to hear that you don’t like it.”
I respect
your preference, you respect mine.
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