Some people bite into a piece of delicious food and their eyes roll back in their heads. Their taste buds fire off a symphony of experience and they savor every second of it. Either my taste buds aren’t as well-developed or my brain doesn’t get those signals as clearly, because no food has ever given me an experience like that.
However, there are certain songs – many, actually – that give me such a feeling of transcendent emotion that I can’t drive while I listen to them. Some songs have made me feel stronger emotions than actual events in my life ever could.
My point is that we all have different soft spots. Different parts of our brains are finely tuned versus bluntly calibrated. Don’t find it strange – instead, enjoy the opportunity for connection. Let someone describe their favorite food to you (or whatever their thing is), and marvel at the incredible range of human experience. Then, savor yours all the more because it belongs only to you.
The Opportunity Machine 