Daily Handbasket: Why Must We Have Favorites?!

 

Decisions, decisions. Favorites feel impossible.

 

“I don’t have a favorite color, because I’m not a four-year-old.” Where did I hear that? A film, perhaps? As I recall, the delivery was pretty snarky, but it still made a huge impression on me. I felt so…liberated.

Why do we have to have favorite things? Maybe someone first asked that question as a conversation starter, and a thousand Kindergarten teachers and meme-quiz writers picked it up. I sometimes will ask about favorite things when I...