Cooking Just Isn’t My Thing

The Exit Dressed Up as Self Knowledge

“Cooking just isn’t my thing.” That’s a real sentence people say out loud.
And it sounds reasonable. Self-aware, even. Like they’ve done some honest reflection and arrived at a mature conclusion about who they are.

It isn’t that.

It’s an exit dressed up as self-knowledge.

 

Two are Legitimate. One is Not.

Some people love to cook. They find it creative, meditative, satisfying. If that’s you, great.

Some people don’t love it. They cook because people need to eat and budgets are real and a body requires actual fuel. If that’s you, great.

Both are legitimate relationships with cooking.

“It’s just not my thing” is something else entirely. It’s opting out of a basic act of self-care and calling it a personality.

 

No One Says Showering is Just Not My Thing

Nobody hesitates to shower. You know why? Because nobody built a billion-dollar industry standing at the ready to swipe your credit card and hand you a clean body.

No one says “showering is just not my thing.”

 

You’ve Got Some Responsibility Here

Food is different. The food industry saw human laziness and built an empire on top of it. They need you to believe cooking belongs in the same category as woodworking or watercolors. A nice skill if you happen to have it.

That excuse is worth billions to them.

You’ve got some responsibility here. And you’re also being played.

As it turns out, you can do something about both of them.

 

Where do you land? Passionate home cook, reluctant but showing up, or somewhere in the middle? Drop it in the comments. No judgment either way. We’re just being honest down here.