The Art of Ice-Cream
Do you think familiarity breeds contempt? Or is being familiar with something only make you like it even more?Take for example, an ice cream.
If you eat ice-cream for the first time in your life, you will be like "Oh my God! This feels great! This is the best thing in the world! How have i been living without this for the past XX years of my life?" So from then on, the more you eat it, the more you start to enjoy it. Tasting the smooth texture in your mouth, the way the cream slides over your tongue into your throat, the cool invitng chill you get down you throat. You even start to look forward to it, remembering clearly how ice-cream taste, how it feels going down your throat. When you finally get your ice cream, you anticipation turns into excitement. You eat yr ice-cream, and all that you expected to taste is instantly confirmed. That confirmation further strengthens your liking for ice-cream! It may not be as exciting as the first time anymore, but you've learned to enjoy the finer points of ice-cream eating.
But then, if you indulge too much in too little time, you start to get tired of it. It still taste the same, but its nothing great anymore. Just like how it was the past few times. But the more you eat it, the more you mentally visualize how it will taste, and at some point, after eating too much too soon, you start to dread the taste. The memory of the taste is followed not be excitement but by dread. And when you finally eat it again, all that you expected to taste is instantly confirmed. Again. That confirmation then strengthens you DISliking for ice-cream! Get it?
So, familiarity with something does bring joy in the things we do. Afterall, we all like what we know best. We like to know what we can expect and always expect what we know. We dont always want to be adventurous or to be thrown into the exciting unknown, coz the unknown isnt always exciting!
But do it too often, too soon in between, and that familiarity brings a totally different meaning. Too much of something, even if it is a good thing, is not good. Our mind becomes saturated, unable to fully appreciate that thing again just yet.
So whether its eating ice-cream, playing Dota or having sex, remember, you start from "Oh my God, this is great!" followed by "Hey, im getting the hang of it, getting really good and fully enjoying it!". But watch it, go slow or you'll end up "Oh, this again. Wait, let me switch to zombie mode."
posted by Compulsive Blogger @ 8:18 pm
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