Les grandes personnes aiment les chiffres. Quand vous leur parlez d'un nouvel ami, elles ne vous questionnent jamais sur l'essentiel. Elles ne vous disent jamais: "Quel est le son de sa voix ? Quels sont les jeux qu'il préfère ? Est-ce qu'il collectionne les papillons ?" Elles vous demandent: "Quel âge a-t-il ? Combien a-t-il de frères ? Combien pèse-t-il ? Combien gagne son père ?" Alors seulement elles croient le connaître. Si vous dites aux grandes personnes: "J'ai vu une belle maison en briques roses, avec des géraniums aux fenêtres et des colombes sur le toit..." elles ne parviennent pas à s'imaginer cette maison. Il faut leur dire: "J'ai vu une maison de cent mille francs." Alors elles s'écrient: "Comme c'est joli!" ******************************************************************************************************* I like that my Grandmother doesn't yell at me when I scrape my finger through a well-iced cake to taste the sugar before the dough. I like when the bus driver is a good whistler. I hate when the old man at the grocery store offers to cart my items to the car,because I'd rathr do it myself so that I don't have to make conversation. I hate myself for hating that. I like having bangs because it makes my face look smaller than it really is. I hate having bangs because they get blown up in the wind all of the time. I miss the ice cream shop that stuffed a marshmallow at the base of each cone. I like shoes that make my feet look smaller than they really are. I like lima beans. I know, right? I like art because it allows me to express myself beyond the capacity of language, which in comparison, is meaningless. I like thinking about what it would be like to live in another era. I like Aldous Huxley, because he taught me that procrastination is characteristic of a genius, who generally will always have something better to think about than the task at hand. I tell myself this is true, but haven't decided if I believe it yet. I wish the world were made of paint, like in that Robin Williams flick. I like thinking about what it would be like to travel back in time to show someone an ipod. I don't like hutle-bustle, money grabbing, or overcooked salmon. I like contradictions. I hate contradicting myself. I like the smell of gasoline. I like water, and diving into it repeatedly to feel the bubbles run up and around my body. I like when smokes clings to a surface. Most of the time, what I dislike most is myself, but that won't change my mind, so I usually try not to think about it. I like seeing shoes on a wire, whether it means there's a meth dealer around or not. I like church steeples, but not churches... although sometimes I wish I did so that I had a reason to dress in Sunday attire with white gloves and a hanky in my pocket like in the 60's. I like cookig and I'm really good at it. I don't like watching TV with someone who will blurt out the lines, seconds before the characters do. I also don't like when people recite a joke from a TV show and someone else recites it right after, correcting the one conjuction the other person missed. I like clocks, and obsessing over time. I like seeing things on movies, and pretending I thought of them. I like word games, and the truth is that I like them because I'm good at them, and winning feels nice. I hate writing about myself, mostly because I seem to do it anyway.