Age for me seems to have become subjective, but unfortunately it also seems to be governing my current thoughts. I have some Scottish rock left from when Dad came back home after a few days, which was Thursday night.
I still haven’t come close to finishing the damn stuff. This makes me think I’m older and generally different, because about a year ago I would have finished it within the night. It’s just little things – taking my time more, realising stuff around me in general that I wouldn’t have as early as in January. Like we were saying, I can’t really skateboard anymore because I’ve just lost the ability to switch off, yet I can still go into a moshpit and get beaten up as badly as if I was to be in a fight. Hehe, funny how Firefox’s spelling equivalent for moshpit is ‘mouthpieces’.
I see things from a different point of view anyway, and I kinda hate it. The fact that I can go past HMV without drooling over the newest game makes my inner child cry. I’m gonna get an Xbox 360 as soon as I’m paid, that much is decided. That said, I still play Neopets…
But what has gone into my adulthoodisation? Alcohol, sex, or rude awakenings? Maybe just the experience of the same things again and again, and the perfecting of how to handle situations. I know now what to do in bad situations – wait the motherfucker out – which makes it so much easier, but also in some respects less interesting because of the lack of stuff you do to make it better. You lose something? Get another one of it. I remember the lies I’ve told to cover up losing something to parents, yet being in the same situation at the end of it than if I’d just let it slide and kept living my life. It’s terrible, most of the stuff you do when you’re a kid and you look back on it and just laugh out loud at how badly you handled that particular episode of your life. It’s really bad.
I realise this is making me sound like 30 but whatever, I’m listening to Opeth and am therefore chilled out for now.
I think it’s just the familiarisation of the world. I’m discovering more every day, but the more I discover the more I need to learn. I love that it’s an endless cycle of the quest for ultimate knowledge as such, which kind of drives me forward. I learnt today that Afrikaans is a mix of Dutch and English, which essentially makes it English anyway, hehe. I learnt that I need to watch the back-catalogue of South Park to get in touch with much of what people are talking about these days. I need to watch more films, and get back in touch in general really. Once I get an Xbox, and think about downloading all 100 top films, and go to Bloodstock to pass out from the overdose of music, and live some more, I think I’ll be ready to continue the next step in my life. To be honest, right now it seems like I’ll never be ready, and I’m now for the first time nervous about uni…I suppose it’s a good thing, something to worry about for a change.
Which reminds me, now that work isn’t all daisies and shit, and just shit, I have something to be pessimistic and drag me down. It’s perfect. The Joker to Batman. The Microsoft to Macs. The lighter to petrol stations.
The yang to my yin. Lucky enough I have more than enough yin to fight it off.
Fate, shine the torch this way please, I’m kind of lost on Your own path.