Out with a friend at our usual spot, I ordered three tacos, two I knew I would like, and one I knew I would not. I had had the one before and it was fairly terrible. When my friend asked me why I would order something I knew I wouldn’t like I started to think about it, but pretended I knew all along. I’ve got to mix it up every once in a while. There’s no reason we can’t experience displeasure in much the same way we experience pleasure. In fact, we do it all the time. Imagine what life would be like if it was only filled with things we enjoyed.
“It would probably be a pretty good life,” was his response.
But then something interesting happened, the two tacos I had ordered which were supposed to be good were, for some reason, pretty bad. And the one taco which was supposed to be bad was delicious! Had I just ordered the good tacos I would have been disappointed. So I understand now that not everything is what we expect it to be, not even if there are prior experiences to back it up.
