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This all very much resonates with me. (I saw the movie Defending Your Life at a young age, and there's a scene where Rip Torn, playing an angel, is eating at a restaurant in heaven that serves everything you could ever imagine or desire. As I recall, he ordered "the usual", and it was a plate of literal horse shit. How long would you have to exist for that to be what you actually wanted? That really stuck with me: a perfect being would love everything.)
Anyway, country music: I always hated it, but when I started learning how to play the guitar, suddenly I found myself liking all kinds of music I hadn't cared for previously, even country! It wasn't even a situation where I wanted to want to like country music; it just sort of happened. Anything with a guitar just sort of hits different now.
This is a tangent but I've always been fascinated by the question of what people would spend their time on given extremely long lifespans. One theory would be art, literature, etc. But maybe you'd get tired of all that and what you'd really enjoy is more basic things like good meals and physical comfort? Or maybe you'd just meditate all the time?