How could anybody not love him?!!?!? Oh I will tell you how.
Guys, I am really stressed out. Like more than when my Valentines day didn't exist because of a difference in opinion over whether our Valentines day should exist. What do you do when you think someone is so awesome and then it turns out they hate the stuff you like? Do you just say goodbye? Do you try to work out the differences, accepting that different people have different tastes? At what point does a difference in opinion mean more than taste, and signify a completely different outlook on life?
Point being, I'm reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (sidenote: that book is f-ing heavy), and I love Dr Johnson so much, but he doesn't like Hume or Swift, and I'm really stressed out about this. I can get over the fact that apparently Dr. Johnson was really fat, and he ate like a beast and would just shovel food down his throat without talking and his veins bulged, and I can even look past our differences in religion. But hating Hume and just thinking Swift is not funny is too much.
If you have any suggestion for how to get over this moral crisis I am currently experiencing, please help me.
Note: I wrote this before reading this, which is about a similar topic and quotes a really good family friend.
1 comment:
I could not love someone who did not love the writers I love. In fact, it would be hard to love someone who didn't love Italian food!
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