The Ultimate Guide to Your Likes and Dislikes: Understanding Yourself Better

The Ultimate Guide to Your Likes and Dislikes: Understanding Yourself Better

[Notes: Introduction. Your likes: Painting which brings you relief and gives you pleasure-travelling-the unknown and the unseen attract you as they did Ulysses-rea-ding poetry (how you feel while reading Keats or Rabindranath) sweetmeats and meat. Your dislikes: Early rising, novel-reading, cinema-going, gossiping, street-corner standing-considered unsocial-why?]

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very man has his own likes and dislikes. They differ from man to man. Thus one man's likes may be another man's dislikes. I have my likes and dislikes. I do not know whether they are comman with those of others. I like painting. Whenever I find time and opportunity, I take up my paints and brushes and draw pictures. Painting brings me relief from the worries and anxieties of life. If I cannot paint for a day or two I feel that I want something essential. Travelling is another thing which I like very much. Indeed whatever is distant, unknown and unseen casts an irresistible attraction on me. Like Tennyson's Ulysses I feel an urge,

"To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all western stars, until I die."

I also like reading poetry. When I read the poems of Keats or Rabindranath I forget myself completely and escape into the cloud land of beauty and romance. I can do without my text books, but cannot without Keats or Rabindranath. So far as food is concerned, my liking is for sweetmeats and meat.

I dislike early rising and early going to bed. The saying, "Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" seems meaningless to me. The other things I dislike, are novel-reading, cinema-going, hot drinks, standing at the street-cornersand gossiping. As I dislike the things liked by the youths, I am considered unsociable.