I’ve started to really like just mustard and sauerkraut on my hotdogs and racing games over FPS because they’re a little slower paced.
According to my doctor I’m experiencing severe depression so… Everything changed.
I had doctors for my depression for years, and they would occasionally say things like “some people feel a little better when they exercise. It’s the endorphins”
What I wish they had done instead was grab me by the lapel, slam me agains the wall, slap me a couple of times, and yell “You fool, you’re depressed because your brain has atrophied from lack of movement! Your natural state is very happy but you evolved to be moving your body!”
When I finally did connect those dots, and finally saw the research on hippocampal neurogenesis, I upped my running from 2 miles maybe every other week, to like 30 miles a week.
And the depression was gone. For the first time in decades. The effect was so much more powerful than the meds.
Read up on exercise, BDNF, hippocampal volume, and depression.
Or just trust me, and go run like a caveman chasing a deer to exhaustion.
I’m actively rowing almost every day that I can and trust me it’s much more demanding than just running.
Thank you for your advice but sometimes life just fucks you up and spits you out the other way.
-Here’s the weirdest one: I used to hate the French language (too “mushy”!) and was super excited that my college offered German. I took THREE YEARS of German. Now I’ve forgotten it all, but I’m really into French and actually considering a French immersion program to get more conversational.
-Also, I used to love loud & stimulating environments (metal shows, night clubs, etc.) while now I appreciate tranquility. Gimme a used bookstore or nature walk any day! I went to a drag brunch recently cause it seemed like the kind of thing I should like as a gay-ish Millennial woman. But it was SO not my thing … the lights, blaring music, close bodies, and cell phones documenting every second just ruined all the nice/chill things about brunch. And I can’t survive an actual concert without earplugs.
-Food-wise, I hated seafood as a kid. Now I love it, including oysters and scallops and octopus and sushi/ceviche of any kind.
May I just say that I love that liking German went with loud environments and metal shows, and liking French went with used book stores and tranquility. It just search so fitting in a way.
Haha now that you mention it…yea.
As a teen/early 20-something, I had a lot of energy and anger in general, which probably influenced my aesthetic and cultural preferences. Now I’m more chill, more content, but much lower energy.
I still enjoy hard rock & metal, but it’s more in a sentimental way, or to have in the background so I clean the bathroom more efficiently ;) I’m not exactly seeking out new bands in that genre.
I used to be a boobs guy but as I have grown older, I have really started to appreciate the ass. 🤌
I started to like Seltzer water. No idea how it happened, I tried it one day after always hating it, and it was like a light switch went off. Now I am always drinking it (still like flat water too!)
Dark chocolate is tasty all of a sudden
I used to like pretty much anything and everything when it came to video games. But the older I get, the fewer games I find I really enjoy. Sometimes I don’t know if it’s the industry that’s simply gotten shittier or I’ve simply explored enough variety to know what kind of stuff I don’t like, so never even bother to try. Mostly because a lot of times I do try something just because it is popular, and I hate it.
Hated broccoli. Love broccoli.
As a kid I hated: Raw onion, Cream cheese, Sauerkraut, Guacamole. Now I love them all.
Still hate: mayo and sour creme, cooked fish.
Also can’t deal w/ sweet now that I’m an adult, was a huge sugar addict as a kid.
When you’re a kid you want the icing. When you’re an adult you want the cake.
Am adult, want icing.
I want good icing, not that awful shortening-based shit you get on most commercial cakes. And to be honest, I mostly only want good cake too (ie, homemade or from a bougie bakery).
I was that weird girl who never wanted icing. I’d always scrape it off and just eat the cake
I like men now ;)
Adult Likes (Disliked as kid)
- Salad 🥗
- Asparagus
- Tomatoes 🍅
- Cucumber 🥒
- Spaghetti 🍝
- Meat Loaf
Kid Likes (Dislike as adult)
- Oreos (inside is Crisco & sugar - Eww!)
- Icing
- Mac and Cheese
- Excessively sweet food & drink
- Braunschweiger
Still Dislike (as kid & adult)
- Lima Beans 🫘
- Brussel Sprouts
- Liver Meat 🍖
- Mushrooms 🍄
Mac and cheese?? Fam, that shit is delicious at all ages
Mac and cheese is delicious for a couple of bites then it just becomes bland to me 🤷
I hated music without lyrics.
Now most of the music I prefer has no vocalist, or is extremely limited.
Vaporwave, synthwave, outrun. That kind of stuff. Almost all without vocals.
Vaporwave can have people speaking but it’s almost always short or garbled speaking.
I just need the music to occupy a part of my brain so I can think.
I was browsing random stuff on Spotify the other day and found some really relaxing music. Just the best music to listen to while chugging along at work. Eventually I looked at the album name… It was literally waiting room/elevator music.
Nothing wrong with a bit of smooth jazz.
I used to hate fresh tomatoes. Now I love it. I used to love really spicy hot stuff, but now it makes me sick if it’s too hot.
I used to hate tomatoes too. Couldn’t figure out why my brother and mother would eat them all the time, they dipped them in salt even. At some point I started liking foods made with tomatoes like pizza and so on. The point at which tomatoes started making sense to my is when I worked out they were a fruit, so rather than waiting for a savoury taste I knew I was getting a slightly less sweet grape. And then I deduced from that you could have a grape and Camembert sandwich. If you haven’t tried this combo, you’re missing out.
What do you have on it besides camembert and grapes? My favorites camembert sandwich is with mayo, Tabasco, smoked ham and olives. And the bread has to be super fresh, I’m already drooling!
I just do Camembert and grapes in a bit of buttered French stick but your combo sounds very tasty.
I need to try that. Sounds like a good way to start the day :)
When I was a kid, I hated salads. Now I love them.
i still don’t understand salads. why would i want to eat cold leaves when i could have a tasty hot cooked meal
Hated. Vehemently hated mushrooms. Now I grow and eat them daily. Same thing with sauerkraut. Started adding it to stuff and horseradish
Friend of mine got kicked out of his apartment for the smell, but I once helped him make a batch for his sauerkraut business, and to pay me he gave me a couple jars from a previous batch.
Holy shit that stuff was delicious. I ate one of the jars on my way home walking down the sidewalk.
But yeah. His neighbors weren’t too happy with the smell.
I will make some at some point. Any recipes you recommend? I’ll grow my own cabbage and then go from there.
Currently have gherkins and onions in the pantry.
Cabbage and yeast. We pounded the cabbage with wooden thumpers to release enough liquid to cover the shreds, then put weights on top of the cabbage to keep it under the water line.
That’s all there is to it. I’m not even sure if we added yeast — it might have been naturally occurring bacteria that caused the fermentation.
