My Personal Tastes

Writing Topic #1 pg. 371

My tastes in what I wear, carry, listen to, and watch all contribute to define who I am. I am 21 years old and my taste are constantly changing. Let me start off by reflecting on my style of clothing I wear. I tend to buy clothes of all styles, whatever I think is “cool” at the time. I don’t really stick to a certain type or style of clothing. I usually buy whatever catches my eye in the stores or if I see something on tv or in public that I like. I don’t have a favorite clothing store, I go into all the different types of stores. Not sticking to a certain style makes me open to different possibilities and options, I like a little bit from each style, genre, group of clothing. This also goes for shoes, I like all different brands and styles.

As for the things I carry that define who I am. The first thing that comes to my mind is I carry a money clip instead of a wallet. I have wallets but I don’t like using them. I don’t know why, maybe because they make me feel like an old man and they’re bulky in my pocket. As for the money clips, I have several kinds. The different money clips I have are chrome, platinum, gun metal black, and a Pittsburg Steelers one. Other things I carry are my truck or car keys, cell phone, and Chap Stick. Sometimes I carry an iPod when I know I might be bored. I don’t really carry anything else because I don’t like a lot of things in my pockets or on me. These define who I am because I like things as simple as possible and only carry the necessities. Another thing that can fit in this category are my sunglasses. I can never go outside, in the day, without a pair of shades. For some reason I only like Spy sunglasses, I have a collection of different colors and styles of spy sunglasses.

I don’t listen to a lot of music, when I do I again, like all different genres. Whatever catches my interest at the time I listen to, but songs get played out to fast to me. I can’t listen to the same songs over and over, I delete songs from my ipod usually once every two weeks. As for the things I watch on tv, I don’t like to many different shows. When I do watch tv I usually watch sports, the amazing race, the O’Reilly factor, and some reality shows. I have a Netflix subscription but I don’t have time to watch all the movies I get. They usually sit there on my counter until I let someone watch them or I send them back. I believe the things I watch can define me as liking sports, traveling to different countries, and staying current on the news and political topics.

I came to like all these things by trying different things out over the years and coming accustomed to knowing what I like and don’t like, thus sort of contributing to defining who I am. I never wrote (typed) so much on what my tastes are but there they are.