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How do I tell my roommate strong smell from her cooking affects me?
We don't all love the same foods and some foods cooking can make leave some people drooling whilst others literally feel quite sick. When I smell pork cooking it makes me feel queasy yet I can still eat it. It’s a fact of life and you should not be made to feel bad for wanting to improve the qualityRead more
We don’t all love the same foods and some foods cooking can make leave some people drooling whilst others literally feel quite sick. When I smell pork cooking it makes me feel queasy yet I can still eat it. It’s a fact of life and you should not be made to feel bad for wanting to improve the quality of your life.
See lessSome smells can make people feel nauseous; heights can make some people dizzy; tasting certain foods can make people feel ill, touching certain materials can repulse people, seeing certain things can give people anxiety and certain noises can make people fly into a rage. Our senses are strong and connect us to the world around us and of course certain things are going to impact us.
However, there is no nice way for you to bring this matter up without offending these people. You won’t be able to ask them to change the time they cook as that’s the time they want to cook their meal. You also can’t ask them to change what they cook because that’s what they want to eat. Unless there are others in your flat also complaining, then unfortunately you’re going to have to count your blessings and try to cope with it. For now, think about what you can do to lessen the impact on your evenings. If the smell is making you queasy when you’re trying to get to sleep, then invest in a small Air Purifier which will filter out the odours and place it near your bed. If it’s seeping into your whole apartment and you’re watching TV and it’s making you feel queasy, then buy a larger Air Purifier or two smaller ones (one for the bedroom and one in the living area). Buy and light some strong, fragrant candles or small incense burner which will eliminate some of the smell for you.
What are some hardest parts of growing older?
Suddenly, you become a philosopher and start to look backward and reflect on your life and on Life in general. As a child, you were taught to study, to find a good job, to get married, to have children, to invest in a house, to save for retirement, etc… You have witnessed all the variations of thisRead more
Suddenly, you become a philosopher and start to look backward and reflect on your life and on Life in general. As a child, you were taught to study, to find a good job, to get married, to have children, to invest in a house, to save for retirement, etc… You have witnessed all the variations of this theme. You have seen people following these instructions by the letter and rebels who have preferred to live a Life of their own. In the end, both sides are just as unsatisfied. Collecting experiences, partners, marriages, jobs, adventures is just a mean to fill a fundamental void. A constant unsatisfaction. Our education is all wrong: we are taught to dream, desire, obtain, dream, desire, obtain, etc… When you were a kid, you were conditioned long before Christmas to dream about your next gifts. Once your wishes granted, how long did you play with your new toys before disregarding them? Two weeks, three weeks and starting to dream about something else. You have been reproducing this behavior all your life. Dreaming about having a nice wife, a great job, a magnificent house, good kids, etc…never living in the instant, always living in some fantasy world of yours. Collecting wealth, experiences or building Empires is futile. Death will take away everything. The only way out is to be completely immersed in our actions. If we let our mind wanders, we immediately fall back into the trap of the desires and perpetuate the cycle of greed and deceptions. Happiness lies in the control of the mind and desires. When all the unessential is removed, irrelevant of the exterior stimuli, you are. The World is changing fast, you are not. You prefer not to see again places of happiness and just want to keep them alive in your mind. -Concentration becomes really deep. More and more, while driving I am lost in my thoughts and either miss the exit from the freeway by 20 miles or do not see red lights and stop signs. You are no longer attached to the treasures you have amassed during your life and easily give them away to friends and family to appease their material thirst. Nature and children become more and more an infinite source of happiness.
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