“There's a huge difference between having very particular tastes and intense opinions and having to lecture other people about those tastes and opinions all the time.”
I have been best friends with “Mary” since we were 19—about nine years total. We met in college, where initially I thought she didn’t like me! This is probably because she has a contrarian personality—often critical of media, jokes, phrases, public figures, and cultural artifacts other people love—and won’t mince words when expressing that she dislikes something in the presence of those people. She’s had this sort of taste since she was, like, 12.
But here’s the thing: I’ve lived long enough to realize that one’s best qualities are also at least sometimes one’s most challenging qualities. Lately, I’ve been feeling a little tired of Emma undermining things I like—whether it’s a pair of funky shoes or a new indie film or an opinion about implementing our socialist politics. Sometimes she’ll contradict me about something mundane while with a group of friends, and I recoil into myself.
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