What's something you wish you could like more?

[Kangaroobrain]

Is there anything you really wish you could like more than you do?

Mine's gardening. I have friends who swear by how therapeutic it is, and I really do like having a garden, but I mostly find doing it an exhausting, frustrating chore. I feel like apologising in advance to any plant I bring back from yet another trip to the garden centre, its chances of survival are so slim.
And as for grow your own - I've successfully brought up three kids but it seems I don't have what it takes to nurture a single tomato to fruition. Sigh...

Other people.
Hot weather.
Popular shit.

Pasta.. so many dishes and recipes and chefs on telly all making some kind of pasta dish.
I just don't like it.

Gardening
Peanut butter
The general public 😂

TV.

People rave about all these shows, and I rarely find them better than mediocre. I miss watching things I enjoyed, and I'm so bored of police dramas and misery.

Red Wine. I really want to like it as it looks so warming and nice in the winter.

Black coffee ( I've always fancied being swish enough to have a coffee machine but since I don't like black coffee it seems a waste).

Running. I keep trying but I've never got to the enjoyment side of it.

Lifting weights. I actually like more varied and vigorous exercise and lifting weights is dull (see also: yoga). I do very much like walking though, especially with a good podcast (have been known to deliberately extend a walk to listen to the end of one) or alternatively, DP 😁

And finally- board games. I used to like them, but then ds1 'got into' Monopoly when he was about 7 and I had to play every bloody day after school for 6 months and I went right off them.

Probably exercise too, since it's alleged to be good for us, but it's just so unspeakably boring 😂

walking

Mackerel, starting work well in advance of deadlines, and the TV show The Bear.

Cleaning
Exercising
Mornings

Bloody hate all three of them.

vegetables, exercise, cleaning, study. Life must be a breeze if you genuinely love all those.
Sadly I have zero enthusiasm for any of them.

Football. 100%.

DP loves it. Plays for a local team. Follows it. Watches England and local city each time they play.

This will sound melodramatic but believe me it isn't given some things that have occurred-it actually gives me trauma responses thinking about it. The days DP has playing then socilaising with the team are so horrendously boring I'd honestly rather be more or less anywhere. They talk about nothing else, they are so loud, they gamble over each other and they go on and on and on and I HATE it, hate it!

I wish I liked it. Wish I could enjoy the days out DP has, wish I looked forward to the matches, wish I enjoyed watching England, wish I loved socialising with DPs team.

I can just about enjoy being at the pub while the lionesses are on --probably down to copious amounts of prosecco.

But I don't generally like it. I hate it.

I am very judgmental too and generally I am very much a live and let live sort of woman. I like 'new' things even if they're not my thing. Not football. I find the whole thing immature, silly, puerile, idiotic even. I know I am being unreasonable. I know I am-please anyone who follows football on here don't think I don't know that I am being awful-I do. But things have happened and I also see grown-ups acting in a certain way, showing off, the chants, the shouting- and talking none-stop about kicking a bag of air around a field for HOURS and hours and it has left me so lonely and upset so many times. Last time I was so so fed up, I was exhausted, hungry, tired beyond belief and so so bored. I asked DP for us to go home and it was a no (and before anyone says why didn't I just leave, I couldn't, we live quite far apart and I had nowhere to go)!

I genuinely 100% wish I could join in, wish I liked it, wish I 'got' it.

But I don't.

That was cathartic!

Oh and cleaning

Wine. Hate the stuff but I wish I liked it as ordering my usual drink(s) at dinner always sounds so unsophisticated!

BBQs, growing vegetables, ballet, long baths, snow, modern architecture, modern art, house parties, Christmas markets, McDonalds, non skinny jeans and apples.

Gardening, cleaning, DIY, cooking.
Playing pretend games with the kids

Barbecues

Mornings
Eggs (I can eat an omlette at a push, but really not keen).
Gardening
Cooking
Baking
Running
Home making
Housework
Being needed
Parenting.

O and playing with kids, but I don't really need to do that anymore.

Healthy food and exercise

I wish I could like people more, most drive me nuts. But those i like/love I'd do anything for.

Soup as a meal. No, I just get hungry and bored with the taste and texture.
Housework during the week. It can wait.
Running, I love the idea, but procrastination is my middle name.

Camping. I love everything about a camping holiday (so long as I don't have to lug everything on my back) except for the sleeping in a tent part.

Cycling. I thought it was ok, I'd had a bike as a student, used it every day. Then I tried the machine at the gym and it was HORRIBLE.

Children. I loathe being around them. I’ve spent decades making the effort with babies/toddlers/children but I just can’t wait for them to leave the room.

Exercise.

I'm old and arthritic now, so it's painful, but I've never liked it, although I used to enjoy long country walks.

Maybe if I'd managed to enjoy exercise, my arthritis wouldn't be so bad.