Do I really like the “carrots” that I really like?

HI again. Update on me- Around the 4 weeks in Mumbai has been over now. Have got used to NMIMS and Mumbai. Rains have been bad. Here are some pictures of it-

coffee with ajay

The last post says I will be more active but then I could really not find any topic to put in here. And I am sure no one was actually waiting for a new post , so it doesn’t make a difference. However here the new one goes…

Do you have a child hood favorite fruit, vegetable, drink, etc? I do. Mine is carrots. Am sure most of us have such favorites. Onions, cucumber, pickles, paachak, papad being the few for different people.

But do we really like it? Or is something that we are educated to like when we were not so intelligent to understand that we were being fooled. Imagine this.
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When I was 6 yrs old I found it really stupid to waste my playing time eating food. It was a tuff task for my mother to feed me some grains to keep me healthy. One fine day she offered me carrot. I did not like it. I hated it. But then it was economical to eat carrot. It wastes less of my playing time. The next day the same thing happened. However the third day I did not feel likes eating it. So I did not.

But a process had begun by this time. My parents had started associating carrots with me. Whenever there were relatives at my place it was mentioned that I like carrots. My uncle, my aunt every started offering me carrots to keep me off crying. I did not like it, but sometimes I stopped crying. (How can a kid cry when his mouth is forcefully stuffed with carrots?) The other times I threw the carrots.

It kept on going for long time. I used to hear everyone speak of my carrot liking every single day. 30 days past by somehow. However on the 31st day I started believing that I like carrots. What actually happened was – IT WAS FEED INTO MY SYSTEMS THAT I LIKE CARROTS. MY PARENTS UNINTENTIONALLY DRILLED INTO ME THAT I LIKE CARROTS.


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I am not sure how good a job I have done in making myself clear, my writing skills being the constraint.

This is my explanation of “childhood favorites”. Hope you identify with it. And if you don’t do care to put in another explanation.