I’ve just finished eating beans on toast. In fact, they were the leftover beans from yesterday’s beans on toast and the black pepper has mellowed. On top of toasted white bread with lashings of butter, most satisfying. Highly English.
Now.
Non-natives will not understand this meal. It’s carbs on carbs and doesn’t make sense to their sensibilities or tastes.
Such is life.
There are always insiders and outsiders. We can try and pretend that everyone will get along and value the same things and behave in the same ways but we know that this is merely politicking!
Even out of in-group preference, every single human being on Earth that exists and has existed has a unique perspective on the truth of matters. We do not and CANNOT see things the same way.
I’ve just sneezed out the pepper from the system. Others won’t.
And many try and persuade others to think particular things out of a desperate need to agree or get their own way but it’s so obnoxious and rude. We pretend to know all the answers and we just don’t. This is a terrible sleight to many’s egos.
Just because you believe something does not mean others can or should. We still haven’t learnt the humanity of trying to genuinely understand where other people are at in life. And we forget that at various points we behaved in the self-same way that we deride others for.
It’s so historically ignorant – rude to boot.
You’re going to be hearing me say it a lot – the fulfilment of your own potential is the only thing that matters, do it with style and class and a sense of dignity.