Here is a weird thought. I gave up soda for lent. I use to drink a ton of the stuff and I was strictly a Coke fan. Now, I hate the taste of Coke and like Pepsi better. It might stem from my subconscious distaste for all things Southern (black eyed peas and sweet tea excluded, oh yeah and “Dukes of Hazard”). I’m now a Pepsi fan. So that got me thinking. If we stepped away from our preconceived notions on things and started back from scratch, what other surprises are there? Not the most enlightening thesis in the world, but I do think it is worth exploring. Maybe give up music for a while and then come back from scratch and find out you like jazz better than rock. At some point you have to drop your preconceived notions in life, because what you think you want is often a world away from what you really want or what you really need.