I don't think I could do this now, at least not entirely. With our different schedules, dinners and a few hours around them are about the only time my fiancee and I have together. That and I am very picky about my food with regards to texture. If the taste and texture don't mesh right, it's out. For that I would have to try it and see if it would be a problem. If it was, I could take some steps to change the flavor, but that might just put the effort right back in.
I like love to cook, I love food and everything that goes with it. This is for people who don't enjoy life. The philosophy of let's get that food out of the way. What's next? Sex?
Craig Froehle cooking great food and enjoying it with your partner and kids is the apex of life's achievements in my book http://biblehub.com/kjv/ecclesiastes/3.htm None of your colleagues or rivals will be there at your gravestone.
Matt Schofield Not being judgmental, not assuming that everyone will conform to your ideals, and enjoying your time with those who care for you and vice versa--no matter the activity--is the apex of life's achievements in my book.
Deen Abiola great, if that makes you happy, it takes all sorts to make a world. I've tried living to achieve stuff in the corporate world, and it didn't work for me. Achieving stuff for my partner and kids does.
Matt Schofield So are you saying the opposite principles to what I've listed will lead to a better or even equal world? I'd genuinely be interested in alternative base principles that lead to as good a world.
Deen Abiola I'm pretty sure that it is perfectly possible to be individually happy with your own family without concerning yourself too much about whether you are "leading to a better or even equal world". If you make your happiness dependent on such a very unlikely outcome, you're pretty much guaranteeing that you won't smell the roses along the way.
You are not answering my question. I merely found it curious how quickly you switched from a declarative pronouncement to a 'to each his own' style of rhetoric. =)
(none of your colleagues at your gravestone carries a connotation of denouncement and not neutrality to someone else's stated preferences)
Deen Abiola Don't worry...Matt has a hard time reigning in his impulse to tell everyone how they should behave, from big lifestyle choices down to trivial things like how to construct an email. ;-)
Glad that something like this exists but it's not for me, not now. In my much younger years when work filled my entire life, it would have been ideal!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could do this now, at least not entirely. With our different schedules, dinners and a few hours around them are about the only time my fiancee and I have together. That and I am very picky about my food with regards to texture. If the taste and texture don't mesh right, it's out. For that I would have to try it and see if it would be a problem. If it was, I could take some steps to change the flavor, but that might just put the effort right back in.
ReplyDeleteI like love to cook, I love food and everything that goes with it. This is for people who don't enjoy life. The philosophy of let's get that food out of the way. What's next? Sex?
ReplyDeleteSo is it made out of people then?
ReplyDeleteMuamer Mujevic Some people don't equate food to life...they enjoy other things more.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle cooking great food and enjoying it with your partner and kids is the apex of life's achievements in my book http://biblehub.com/kjv/ecclesiastes/3.htm None of your colleagues or rivals will be there at your gravestone.
ReplyDeleteMatt Schofield Not being judgmental, not assuming that everyone will conform to your ideals, and enjoying your time with those who care for you and vice versa--no matter the activity--is the apex of life's achievements in my book.
ReplyDeleteDeen Abiola great, if that makes you happy, it takes all sorts to make a world. I've tried living to achieve stuff in the corporate world, and it didn't work for me. Achieving stuff for my partner and kids does.
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Matt Schofield So are you saying the opposite principles to what I've listed will lead to a better or even equal world? I'd genuinely be interested in alternative base principles that lead to as good a world.
ReplyDeleteDeen Abiola I'm pretty sure that it is perfectly possible to be individually happy with your own family without concerning yourself too much about whether you are "leading to a better or even equal world". If you make your happiness dependent on such a very unlikely outcome, you're pretty much guaranteeing that you won't smell the roses along the way.
ReplyDeleteYou are not answering my question. I merely found it curious how quickly you switched from a declarative pronouncement to a 'to each his own' style of rhetoric. =)
ReplyDelete(none of your colleagues at your gravestone carries a connotation of denouncement and not neutrality to someone else's stated preferences)
Deen Abiola Don't worry...Matt has a hard time reigning in his impulse to tell everyone how they should behave, from big lifestyle choices down to trivial things like how to construct an email. ;-)
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle sorry! If you prefer, I won't comment but simply observe.
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