Tastes change

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

I enjoy a lot of things that I didn’t like when I was younger. I regularly eat squash and spinach, sometimes even meatloaf. I listen to all types of music, including bands and genres that I was sure I didn’t like.

With food, it was just a matter of trying something that Trish or someone else made. I knew if I didn’t like it, it would be no big deal and I would skip it next time. In most cases I realized I either liked it or could tolerate it for the nutritional benefit. I know some people have strong revulsion to certain foods and I can understand avoiding those. For anything else, try it again and you might find that your palate has changed. If not, no harm done.

With music, I wonder whether I really didn’t like it back then. As a kid, I remember saying I did or didn’t like certain things to be the same as my friends. Did I even know whether I liked it? In other cases, maybe I assumed I didn’t like it and never gave it a chance. Maybe it’s a little of both. Trish and I have accumulated an eclectic music collection over the years. Slowly and surely I’ve expanded my comfort zone well beyond what I ever expected. At this point, I’ll give anything a chance and then decide how I feel about it.

What’s something you like now that you never thought you would?

1 Comment

  1. Pat

    A few things I have grown to like are:
    Certain Foods, Music and “Staying at home.”
    Eggplant surprises me…delicious!
    I enjoy Gerry Garcia’s tunes 🎶 a lot.
    There are things about “staying home” I never realized could be fun.
    Like: Cooking healthy meals and Relaxing/taking care of myself.
    😀
    Who knew!!