Four, four, four for my headaches

[venta]

I just started writing up my answers to the four-things meme, then stopped when I realised it was crashingly dull. This is not intended to be a comment on other peoples' answers; just that mine in particular were dull.

Four jobs ? Unless I count two roles at the last one separately, I've only had three[*]. Places I've lived ? Two, unless you let me count different roads in Oxford. Four TV programs ? I think I might have watched four this year - that is, four episodes of QI and bugger-all else. I don't watch films over and over, in fact I don't really watch films.

The biggest problems I have, though, in answering questions like those is, firstly, to think of four places I'd rather be "right now". As it is, I'm sitting on the sofa, I'm quite comfy and I'm quite happy. OK, so it's not the most exciting venue in the world, but if I were right now ski-ing down a glacier in New Zealand I'd have terrible trouble getting back for work in the morning. Also, I can't ski. I appreciate that this isn't really the point of the question, but it's the way my mind works. Even in my flights of fancy I demand a certain element of realism, and being somewhere significantly else this evening just isn't going to happen. I am practical to the point of mundanity.

Secondly, I don't have favourites. I never really have. So, four favourite foods ? I can tell you four things I like, but as I rule I couldn't rank them or claim to be consistent two days running. I couldn't tell you my favourite book, or favourite song, or favourite place, though in each case I could give you a selection of examples that I thought were pretty good.

At a confirmation class when I was about 14 we were instructed to bring the following week our favourite possession. I forget what the point of the exercise was, but I simply wasn't able to come up with a sensible answer. Various people tried asking questions like "what would you grab if you had to run from a burning house?" but really, I still didn't know. Nowadays I suppose it would be my wallet and phone for convenience; a pet if I had one. There are many possessions I'd be sad to lose, but nothing that really stands out.

Does every else have clearly delimited favourites ? Books, films, foods ? If so, is that a long-standing list or does it change regularly ? Do you have something you'd refer to as a favourite possession ?

[*] The possible only piece of interest in my entire meme-answer was that the other two were agricultural labourer and ballet-school pianist.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, so far I don't think we've had any defenders of having favourites posting here... I was beginning to wonder whether in fact having definite favourites was something that in general people grow out of. But a sufficient number of people have answers ready when asked that this fact is usually obfuscated.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I was counting triskellian, secondhand_rick and phlebas as having expressed at least one authoritative favourite. Even if they shy away from extending favouritism to all spheres of life, it's clear which side they're on!