Tired of it.

10th of June - tired of it all.

I’m so tired of having an opinion on everything and then having to defend the opinion, as if my opinion actually matters. It doesn’t, none of it does. 

Social media takes all arguments and turns them into self destructing shit storms. Like bar fights where everyone joins in not knowing how it ever got started. 

‘Keyboard warriors’ are everywhere, some cowardly, some with false names, fanning the flames, looking for new victims to get more likes, using every possible interpretation of words to ‘catch somebody out’ then out them as ‘part of the problem’. Then sometimes the anger which is created spills out on the streets where keyboards can’t control it. 

By the way, I’m not thinking of any one side here, just general. 

So much stuff being ‘thrown out with the bath water’, everyone trying to be the purest of the pure in all the arguments, trying to bring others down so that they themselves can climb up the ‘like’ stakes.

Does anyone listen anymore? Does anyone listen to what others are trying to explain, or must everything be analysed to find fault instead of trying to find common ground. 

It’s tiring, it’s time consuming and it doesn’t help. Real problems and valid arguments get minced up, confused and end up in petty arguments. 

Forget one ‘meme’ or hashtag or forget to adjust your profile picture to the ‘problem of the day’ and you become part of the problem, your values could be questioned. 

All so tiring. 

And by the way, I don’t need a black rectangle on my profile to stand-up to racism or bigotry. 

In the 70’s we wore lots of badges to define our ‘punk attitude’ my favourite badge was ‘Wearing Badges Doesn’t help’….. 

I think that applies to profile pictures, hashtags and other social media false identities.  

Life.

Life.

It’s not a mystery, we know how it ends.

Life is a journey with some very tight bends

Bumpy at the start, roundabouts in the middle

and a painful end.

Self help.

Okay, so I’ve now read all these books on self improvement, the ‘How to’s’ and ‘overnight success’ techniques , I think I’m ready for life now. Although I’m sat here looking at this blank page and none of my friends are answering my calls and messages and I’ve nothing to do on this Saturday night, so obviously I’ve missed a book somewhere. 

While I was reading everyone else was out socialising, getting the practical skills, but if they ever need the theory behind it ,they can give me a call. 

There is a huge industry out there of people telling us how to do everything, a whole market of books telling me how to earn money (step one write a ‘how to’ book) , get a life , get a job, start a blog, get a career, earn shitloads of money. All written by people who are so say experts in the given field. I read all that shit, any improvement I’m up for it. I’m the renovator of my own being, well I read the books anyways. 

How the fuck primitives got around to inventing the wheel, starting fires, farming and killing huge animals without any of this help only google knows. 

But they did it! although they were probably doing it the wrong way which is why they never had time to have hobbies or read books and self help themselves into a better person, and because they never got the knowledge, they evolved into us.

How not to.

After reading all the ‘how to’ books I’ve decided to get into all the ‘how not to’ books. Yes, there is also a market in what not to do , sort of ‘how to be perfect’ sorta stuff. 

How not to get fat, old,  cholesterol, herpes, poor, lonely, bored or mad. 

Next up will be the ‘how you can save the world’ books. Gonna learn how to recycle, to live cheaper, live responsibly. I’m gonna learn how to make stuff from garbage, grow stuff I can eat, feed from a window box. 

I’m almost there almost perfect just a few more books and I’ll be there. 

At the end I’ll write my own book ‘Read this shit if you must, but I’m off for a beer’ .