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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
Or alternatively, Ten Things I Haven't Done Since University...
Last Saturday, I was discussing with a friend how we've never grown up, unlike people of previous generations who had to due to circumstance. I expressed the opinion that we are an indulgent generation who have had more money than any generation previously, and this is why we're still not as mature as our parents were at our age. However, I've thought about it, and I'm nowhere nearly wild as I was in my Uni days. Have we accidentally grown up without intending to? Is it true that, we're all trying to not grow up, but we actually have?
Also... Am I writing like Carrie Bradshaw with all this rhetoric?!
Anyway, these thoughts have made me ponder things that I've stopped doing. I've not stopped doing them deliberately so that I can be more mature, it's just that I, well, stopped. Here are ten things I have done more than five times, but haven't done in three years:
1) Thrown foodstuffs of percarious freshness out of a high rise window.
2) Got drunk as I wrote a report/ essay.
3) Been clubbing in shorts.
4) Bought three bottles of Concorde for a fiver.
5) Eaten a Pot Noodle.
6) Sat around with friends for over an hour finding the rude place names on maps.
7) Bought milk as a hangover cure - the larger the bottle the bigger the hangover - and consumed it in the street.
8) Stayed awake for 48 hours.
9) Sat in bed all day reading novels, and claimed it to be a 'full working day'.
10) Watched Diagnosis Murder.
These are all things that I would still do, but haven't. So the intention/ potential is still there, just not the action. As such, I conclude that I am acting mature sometimes as a victim of circumstance, but really haven't grown up. This is good because grown up are boooooooooooooooooooring!
Why do I suddenly have the desire to yank on my colleague's tie and make the not really tight and small? [grin]
Have fun,
M
Current mood:
silly.Current music: Weapons of Mass Distortion by The Crystal Method.