Welcome back
to my long awaited return to the blogging world. I am pleased to be back as it
seems as if the angry mob of obsessive fans has waned and gone about their
business of late so I am under no pressure to publish something quickly in
order to satisfy the masses. Something that is less than the “quality” expected
of me is just a reflection of me selling out and putting any old rubbish on
here that is going to generate hits and comments. I happen to have principles,
not many but I stand by the few that I have. One of those is not to give in to
popular demand and public opinion. What I am trying to get at is I am not going
to write on here just for the sake of writing. That is not the reason I started
this blog. I wanted to vent my opinions and frustrations in a more comedic and
fun way instead of standing in an empty room for 30 minutes screaming at the
top of my lungs.
As the
manager of a local Sunday football team I am constantly trying to keep everyone
happy so that they all stay and play for each other. This responsibility has
helped me to realise that not every opinion I possess may be the right one, or
anyone else’s for that matter. Some things that I say or do immediately sound
ridiculous in my head and don’t necessarily reflect my feeling at the time. It
is as if I have some sort of emotional Tourettes syndrome
where my mouth betrays my mind by bleating out concoctions of words that I
would never say had my vocal chords given my brain time to process the consequences.
In my home life I am much more relaxed and comfortable with how I conduct
myself, until I am forced to bite my tongue when I am in earshot of a minor. I
am constantly battling with my vocabulary limitations whenever I am around my
nephew, niece or any of their little friends. I usually fill in the blanks of
sentences with expletives, for instance; “where’s my *@!%ing wallet?” or the
classic; “it’s *@!%ing cold in here.” I will allow your filthy minds to imagine
the types of swear word used for these quotes. Around kids though, I would
replace these with “flipping,” “chuffing” or “fucking.”
It is hard
to believe that I am 28 years old and still this immature. I work hard to
maintain this level of childishness and I try to keep my mind young, even if my
body is fast becoming a vessel of strained muscles and aching joints. This is
mainly due to my weekend commitments to the sport that I love. On a Sunday night
I have done so much mentally and physically over the course of the weekend that
my whole persona takes on the role of a geriatric warn down pensioner who likes
nothing more than creating buttock crevices in the sofa with a blanket wrapped
round me vaguely throwing food in the direction of my mouth whilst watching
whatever happens to be on the telly at the time due to me being too lazy to
locate the remote control. I really am that bad by the time Sunday evening
draws in. I even ignore my kitty as he hovers above me on the back of the sofa
catching the heat generated by the radiator behind. No matter how battered and
bruised I get from football and how old my body feels as a result of it, I will
always be young at heart and immature at mind.
I can’t help
but have these thoughts pop into my head. Half of the stuff clanging around in
there is benign and helpful to no one. It’s almost as if you could physically
remove half of my brain and I would miss nothing. I wish I had a way to
organise my thoughts and memories a little better than my current system of one
in one out. It’s like my frontal lobe is the bouncer and only lets new stuff in
if something else drops out. Who knows what vital information I have destroyed
from learning that buttermilk doesn’t contain any butter? Maybe my only saving
grace is the fact that there are some monumentally thick people out there that
make me look relatively smart.
The opinions
expressed in this blog are solely the opinions of the individual and don’t
necessarily reflect those of the publisher, but as the publisher is the
individual and this blog is all about the individual opinions of the publisher
I guess the opinions expressed do reflect those of the individual and
publisher. Thanks for reading...
Yipeee!! About time too love Mum x
ReplyDeleteI think not enough emphasis is put on adults to maintain their youth and playfulness...It is refreshing to see :)
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you are a brilliant writer. And the fact that your Mum posted a comment, well, that is just adorable!
~From, Stranger from Yankyland
You can always rely on the Captain being in touch with his inner child!!
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