Never the Favorite

Early on, we develop a favorite toy, show, cousin, aunt/uncle, neighborhood friend, so on and so forth. Many times, it will be a pairing. Two cousins will each be each other’s favorite cousin, or two neighborhood kids find they are each other’s favorite and the BFFs are born.

These tendencies don’t leave us in adulthood. We’ve got favorite aspects of our jobs, favorite TV shows or books, even favorite clothes because they are the most comfortable. Having grown more familiar with the kinds of people we like and dislike, we even have favorites here, just with more categories. We have a favorite…