So...hi there, AGAIN. :D I noticed something rather...interesting, today.

I hate the color pink. I really, truly hate it. I always associate it with some obnoxious giggly buffoon who can't get off her cell phone, because she's too busy talking about designer clothes and stuff like that. The stereotypical "dumb blonde." Blame the fact that I live in Stereotype Land, or perhaps the fact that it WAS my favorite color through my hyper-feminine giggly buffoon phase...your choice, but I think it was a combination of both that led to this association. And as a result, I cannot stand the color. Not to mention I usually think it just looks stupid.

Or at least...that's how it was until very, very recently.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you just very suddenly realized that your tastes had changed, and you liked something you thought you hated, or vice-versa? Because recently, I did with this color.

Now, I know precisely what -- or rather, who -- caused this little change in my view of the color. It's all this guy's fault, I swear. XD No, really. Simply enough, as I prepare to go see him in concert, I'm noticing a hell of a lot more about him...including the way he manages to incorporate my former least favorite color into styles that I quite like. I'm starting to like it again. A lot.

It would probably really freak my mom out if I suddenly started wearing it again after hating it so much for so long...but now I'm really tempted to break out my old clothes from my hyper-feminine giggly buffoon phase and alter them so I have something that incorporates the color in a way that I like. XD

But it's strange...I've had similar incidents before. It was only very recently that I realized I disliked sweet foods...so recent that even though I generally hate them, I still get cravings for them once in a while because I EXPECT to still like them. XD And I hated sushi the first time I tried it...now it's one of my favorite foods. How I got talked into trying it again after I hated it so much that first time is still a mystery to me...but hey, I'm glad I let myself fall for it. XD

So I ask you...have you ever had any similar moments of realization?

I have had lots of those realizations and they can go in reverse as well. There are things I used to like that I don't now.

Just for the record...I am blonde, my favorite color is in fact pink, I've been compared to Barbie, but I have a genius IQ. I despise the stereotype that blondes are dumb.

Heaps. None that I can say off the top of my head, but...

As a kid, I was such a fussy eater. I stuck to a few meals and that was it, you know? My mum would try to encourage me to eat more broadly, but it never worked. She'd say, "okay, we're having lamb chops! :D" and I'd convince myself that I absolutely hated it. Truly, madly, deeply. And by the time it was in front of me, I really did. And the one time that I attempted to eat lamb chops, I'm pretty sure that I threw up.

One example of this is steak, actually. I remember being about eight and sitting at the table for half an hour chewing on one bite. Then my meal went cold, I spat my mouthful out in the toilet, and didn't eat anything until breakfast the next day.

These past few years I've been trying heaps of foods that I neglected from my childhood, and finding that they're really delicious. Steak is one example of that. Lasagna is another.

Yeah, I was THAT fussy.
Oh well. It's all in the past. >__>


Speaking of pink, though... I guess I was sort of the same as you. I hated pink on principle. Whenever I stopped and thought about it, I didn't actually mind the colour itself, but what stereotypes surrounded it. So whenever someone would ask me my favourite colour and I didn't know what to say, I'd be all, "Notpink." Because Notpink is totally a colour, yeah? :P

Lol, but I've gotten over it now. Now I just recognise that it's a colour, and if I like it then I like it, and anyone who's going to judge me on that probably isn't worth my time anyway.

Originally Posted by Blondheart

I have had lots of those realizations and they can go in reverse as well. There are things I used to like that I don't now.

Just for the record...I am blonde, my favorite color is in fact pink, I've been compared to Barbie, but I have a genius IQ. I despise the stereotype that blondes are dumb.

I hate that stereotype too. I hated how it came into my mind, too, and that was ANOTHER strike against the color for me. XD;

I never did think all blondes were dumb, though - just the ones in my town who reflect the stereotype SO GODDAMN PERFECTLY. >.<; There are way too many here. It's like an airhead convention. I know one my age (I'm 19) who cannot add 50+50, I am serious. :gonk:

I actually used to be a natural blonde...though I think I'm the most dramatic case of hair darkening with age that I've ever seen. o_o [/ramble]

But yeah...no offense meant to you. Just to the airheads in my town who make that stereotype stick. :sweat:

@Hades: I was almost that fussy when I was little...almost. Not quite, though...damn. Never thought I'd be beaten. XD

But it's funny, I didn't just hate it on principle...I mean, I did hate it for what it was associated with, but I also hated how it looked most of the time. But now that I've seen it pulled off so well so many times...as a whole, it's looking a hell of a lot better to me. XD

Yeah, I was absolutely terrible. Nobody ever believes me when I tell them, and I think that secretly, my mother's glad for that. She probably doesn't want anybody to know that she raised such a picky kid! . _.

So I beat you on the fussy eating and you beat me on the pink hate-age. I think we're about even. But yeah, I didn't mind how it looked... the colour itself I found pretty neat, when it was the right shade. It was just what it was associated with in my mind, and also that it tended to be matched with pretty hideous outfits for whatever age group I was in at the time.

That was before the tarting-up of little kids that goes on today, though. If I was a mother, I'd definitely dress my daughter in those clothes that I hated so much over what's in stores now. The styles for seven year olds are exactly the same as those for teens and adults, excluding (in most cases) the plunging necklines.

*grumbles*

I hated the colour pink for almost ten years. Now I don't mind it as long as it's not a really horrible shade. I don't really remember why I started hating it but I refused to have almost anything that was pink (at one stage I don' think I would even eat pink icing) I was just really tom boyish.
As for something that I suddenly discovered I liked I guess rowing would be the answer to that. When my mum signed me up to do it I was dead set against it and I really didn't want to go. As it turned out my mum had to force me to go. I continued for a year cause I didn't want to let the team down (if I left then they wouldn't have enough girls to make a team) after about a year when I started rowing by myself I suddenly found that I loved it, a lot.

Originally Posted by Aeisha

As for something that I suddenly discovered I liked I guess rowing would be the answer to that. When my mum signed me up to do it I was dead set against it and I really didn't want to go. As it turned out my mum had to force me to go. I continued for a year cause I didn't want to let the team down (if I left then they wouldn't have enough girls to make a team) after about a year when I started rowing by myself I suddenly found that I loved it, a lot.

Funnily enough, I actually row. XD

I've just started, though. I love it already but the girls in my quad are making me slowly begin to dislike training. They're all my friends, if not my best friends, but they're not the kind of people I can hang around all day with. One of them whines constantly and two of them kept flirting with our coach. *headdesk*

But selections are next week, so I'll be training with new girls soon.

And you're right. Rowing is just a sport that you can easily love... as long as you don't get sea-sick.

I just hated it because I was always in Bow (is happy she doesn't have to explain that) and it was really difficult because the balance was so bad and i would always be fighting to get my oar out of the water and when we stopped they would yell at me and tell me to lift my oar, which I couldn't do no matter how hard I tried.
Single skull is really enjoyable though, but don't wear gloves if you haven't done it before it is really difficult to keep control.

One thing that i had always been determined not to like, was my college. It had a pretty bad reputation, and i really didn't want to go there. However, when i had no other choice, i soon found that i actually loved it there.
There've been plenty of other situations i'm sure, but that one springs to mind first.

I usually sit in 2nd or 3rd. It's so much easier than trying to keep the pace, or trying to keep the pace with three people all at once.

That happened to me a lot today, actually. I was in sitting in Stroke, and our coach was telling us to lift our bums off of the seats when we took a stroke (as an exercise.) The bow pair - the girls that flirted with our other coach - were literally almost standing up when they did it, but I didn't have the nerve. It was too hard for me to do so early in the season, I guess.

He was also telling us to go super slow on the recovery, which I understood. The Cox was counting for us as we were in the recovery, but no one but me stayed in time. I was in Stroke, again, so anyway they should have stayed in time with me... but they didn't, and there were oar collisions and at one point my oar flew out on my hand and basically was being dragged backwards through the water.

That happened a lot, actually >__>

We rowed for about an hour and a half today and got nowhere at all. Last Saturday I rowed for the same time in a different quad, with a different coach, and got at least a kilometre or two down the river. I think it must say something about the quad that I'm unofficially in, but they won't let me be in another quad until selections. They've got it in their heads that we're amazing when we can't even stay in time because they're too fast, or too slow.

I'm just a grouch, though.

At the moment I don't have the opportunity to row in a single scull, but when the opportunity's there, hoo boy will I take it! Until then, though, I'm hanging out until selections. They're only in a week or two, anyway.


...but I think we're slightly off-topic, so I'll just spoonfeed that I started out like this:
Rowing = YAY I ♥ THIS
...and now I'm like this:
Rowing = Okay, cool. Um. :/

It's a sad transition, but I'll regain my love eventually. Within the season, hopefully!

I love pink, almost as much as I love yellow and green!

Back on topic, that kind of thing happens to me all the time. Until recently, I always hated olives and anchovies, until a week or two ago, when I had olives stuffed with anchovies. The flavours worked really well together, and now I love them both, even when they're seperate!

Pink Pink Pink Pink. Awright, I couldn't really stand the colour pink either. For a long time, I couldn't stand it. Now, I realise that the real bad colour is yellow. =3

I go through phases of hating things all the time. I'm just hateful/indecicive like that. The funny thing is, I can't remember any examples of such things. :sweat:

Apparently orange used to be my favorite color when I was really little. I don't even know why because I don't remember it. But orange looks terrible with my red hair so now I avoid it like the plague. I was with you on hating pink too...now I like some pinks, especially the lighter ones. I think the reason that people change on subjects like this is maturity. Everything is supposed to be black and white when you're little. You hate things just on principle rather than your actual tastes.

Hmm...I wonder if sushi is an acquired taste? I know that olives are and I've started to like those, but only on pizza...same with mushrooms.

That happens to me. And with foods, it's as if certain things are no longer acceptable to eat every seven years. I promise you I've counted this and it seems about that time that I'll say, not like bananas, not like oatmeal, not like a certain junk food. It's odd, I seriously think my tastebuds go through some private phase and don't care that I know it. Not that it would bother me at all if I completely lost my taste for those things that very unhealthy anyway, like soda, candy, chips, etc. And while I hardly eat candy, and my parents don't buy soda (unless we're having a cook-out), I do still find other ways of indulging in sucrose, and it's so annoying. I honestly wish I had only a taste for very slight sweetness. It would do wonders for my face I think. I'm not a chronic breakout, but my jawline is suffering at the moment from too much syrup on the pancakes >< and sherbert. Good think I drink water like crazy, I know that helps balance things out. NOW I'm just trying to get myself motivated to be exercising everyday like I used to. It's amazing what sweat can do for you, people. ^^

As a matter of fact, yea.
The same thing happened to me!
I used to hate the color pink too, but them I became like, obsessed with cotton candy, and now I actually really like pink.
It's wierd.

Pink is just another color to me. It's just now I realize some people react emotionally to a color.

Lol Stereotype Land? Never heard of it xD But yeah, a lot of people don't really like pink just for that reason. But I notice on a lot of games people always want to have atleast some shape of pink in their games ect. I personally don't mind the color pink it's just another color in the spectrum.

Haha, I find myself doing that all the time.
For instance; I have many shows that I look at and say "My god I hate that show!" But then I look back on that a few years later and find myself actually liking the show itself. Of course I thought I was going crazy, but of course that didn't matter to me anymore.
These kinds of things happen like different styles going through different people's heads.

Umm with shows, the opposite happens to me.
I wnat to hide the artwork I made from some of them.
I sometimes don't even want to admit to myself that yes I liked THAT at one time.

I have the old artwork in folders labeled look here and die. Something like that.

I don't really understand how people can hate something like COLORS. But eh, maybe it's best not to find out. x'D People would wince in pain upon seeing the color pink, but really, I think it's because people have more against stereotypes associated with pink. xP

I used to hate wearing jeans as a kid, but man, one day my mom bought home a nice pair of dark blue Glo jeans. And I swear...I just fell in love. Jeans are the only types of pants I wear nowadays. XD

I went through that phase until last year. I still hate a lot of pink (like that one chick from Harry Potter 5, grrr she annoys me.) but pink in moderation can be really pretty. (Loves hot pink and black together)

I used to be really into the gothic and emo stuff but the more emo's I got to know the more i less grew to like them.. and their clothes. :| But I still love goths and there clothes but I like mohawks and leather jackets more.

I've noticed that I have been into different tastes as well. Like somethings that I eat now I would have thrown up when I was little.

IT'S JUST A COLOR

I don't care what color the shirt is, if it looks flattering on me, I buy it! I can't even look at something and automatically think of some stereotype. I suppose we just think differently.

I never had a favorite color my whole life. Lol, but that's how I am with everything... I don't have a favorite style of music, I like every type. If it's a good song, then I listen to it. I don't have a favorite type of guy, if he's hot, he's hot.

xD

I was also like that about pink, until I started warming up to it.
Though I do still hate this particular shade of pink.

Some other things I used to hate, but now like are formal clothes, skirts, form-fitting clothes, rainbows, red hair (though the only kind I don't hate is burgundy), red or pink-toned lipstick, clothing cuts that show off your body, ponytails, and sunglasses.

Yea that's just like I hated Mene, and the first acc I created was when it was in it's early times. So I got banned on purpose. Now I'm back, posting up a storm. I also hated Maplestory and now I have redownloaded it and am itching to play it x3.

There are some things I can't stand,
some of them are actually small things,
like people who are hanging to old grunges,
people who made up unnecessary lies,
or spoiled stubborn people.

But then there were odd times
where I surprised myself regarding those,
like when I ended up thinking that
they are actually cute and kind of pure
like naive little kids who refuse to grow up
and made me want to tease them a little. :insane:

Heh. Maybe I'm also weird,
for having those kind of thoughts. XD