If you had to lose one of your five senses (hearing, feeling, seeing, touch, taste), which would you choose, and why?
I made a lot of headway this year due to the gouging and constant price increase of things weekly. For a while I was buying those Bear Claws 4 to a pack and they were a very nice size but still about 5 bucks and some change. They cut the size in half and raised the price and that was enough for me. I only recently bought ice cream that was 5 dollars last year and some change but now it is 8 bucks and some change. I was really enjoying all that pastry and cake. I love chocolate cake and managed to stop buying it. Haven't lost that much weight that I can tell so I'll have to keep that in mind if prices ever return to normal.
I think smell was left out. Anyway that's easy for me. Taste. Same reason as Ken. And it would probably be the least dangerous to lose in terms of accidents. If you could smell cinnamon rolls baking, would it be almost as enjoyable to eat them, even if you couldn't taste them? Sometimes I think smell and texture are almost as important as taste. They all 3 play a part.
True that is, but if the cost continues to rise at the rate it continues to none of us will have to worry about our senses.
You just reminded me of how grateful I should be to have them all intact. As Nancy said, "smell" was omitted and the duplicated "feeling" and "touch" took its place. So I'd have to pick smell, even though that would likely take most of my taste with it.
Feeling and touch are the same thing. These are the 5 I learned. Of this 5, I could most easily live with a sense of smell (especially when cleaning the cat box). The eyes give us the sense of sight. The ears give us the sense of hearing. The nose gives us the sense of smell. The tongue gives us the sense of taste. The skin gives us the sense of touch. https://www.woodwardenglish.com/lesson/the-five-senses/#:~:text=The Five Basic Senses 1 The eyes give,The skin gives us the sense of touch.
Well, I lost "taste" (and appetite) for some six weeks and wound up in the ER/Hospital twice due to it. I now wear high-tech hearing aids, so I was able to keep my hearing, but when I'm not wearing them, I have to keep saying "what did you say?"
I'd probably say taste, though I'd hate to give up any of them. I'd never want to give up my sense of smell; too many wonderful things like the scent of a baby's neck or the petrichor of a summer thunderstorm, fresh bread baking or coffee brewing, the "scent memories" like my dad's pipe tobacco. I love this quote; it seems apropos in this thread... "There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways." -Agnes Sligh Turnbull
I can't do it willingly but it would be taste. Why? Because at least I can see, smell, touch and hear it cooking and as long as my brain is working I can remember what it taste like and imagine.
Lost most of my hearing before I even got older. My hubby has terrible eyesight and always has.So , I guess also the loss of taste .
I would probably miss taste the least. My first thought was hearing, but then I thought of the birds chirping away in the trees. The enjoyment of taste is a temporary thing anyway where the rest are constant necessities. Smell would come in second and they're similar I think.