Ossified

Sometime in 2011 or 2012, I bought a Jo Malone perfume. This is a brand that specializes in interesting, unusual scent combinations. I really loved my scent but then, for a variety of reasons, I moved on and didn’t buy from this brand again.

Then last November I passed by a Jo Malone stand in Montreal and saw that they had new, attractive fragrances. I went over many of them and chose one that I really liked. N gave it to me for Christmas.

Today I was looking for something and found the old bottle from my 2011 Jo Malone perfume. It was the exact same scent I selected 12 years later.

There were all those options but, without wanting to, I went with the same old one. I’m telling you, people, I have a rigid, rigid brain that needs to get exercised to avoid getting completely ossified.

13 responses to “Ossified”

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    Anonymous

    Jo

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    Anonymous

    Jo Malone

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Totally. The darn spell check.

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      1. David Gendron Avatar

        Joe Malone is a former hockey player though.

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        1. methylethyl Avatar

          Does it smell like a hockey player?

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            Anonymous

            I hope not, given he’s dead since 1969!

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    Demotrash

    The average person is more rigid yet. You both overemphasize your own rigidity and underestimate others’. You are middle of the pack at worst.

    For example, the average political person comes to certain political beliefs when they’re young (the college years are common for this), then retain these precise beliefs for the rest of their life, no matter how the world changes around them. Most people are also unwilling to move to another country. Many people are even unwilling to, say, try Indian food.

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    1. cliff arroyo Avatar

      ” the average political person comes to certain political beliefs w… then retain these precise beliefs for the rest of their life”

      Actually what most people do is choose a political community very early on and then adopts the views of the community. Actually looking at individual issues on an issue by issue basis is vanishingly rare.

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      1. Clarissa Avatar

        Extremely rare! People subscribe to a feeling of belonging and adopt a package of beliefs that comes with that feeling. I wish I were capable of that because it must be very enjoyable.

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        1. methylethyl Avatar

          I dunno. I did that when I was young and dumber– a proud Rothbardian libertarian. The problem was that I didn’t *want* to belong to that crowd. Like, some of that I still sympathize with in theory, but… cooties.

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          1. cliff arroyo Avatar

            “I still sympathize with in theory, but… cooties”

            I know the feeling. I still have some libertarian sympathies but as a political movement…. no…. (shudder) just…… no……

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    Anonymous

    which scent?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Nectarine blossom and honey.

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