Perhaps this is as good… as it gets.
I love this song I don’t know why. I’m determined to learn to play it. It’s all cheery and reflective and ‘warm’. (I dunno) It’s sort of made me realise a few things, in the last few days.
The week isn’t too bad so far - Friday night party wh00p, Cambridge on Wednesday (going shopping oh yes more t shirts more shoes! *bargain bucket*) and going out for a lil bit today. I’m also making progress in booking driving lessons. I’d actually love to go on a road trip, with my camera, and a friend. Rock out.
Tuesday and Thursday are still bleak for now however… :( But the good news is I get a free cookie if I fill out this online feedback survey.
Anywho I have chips to go steal from my friend.
It could be a bit longer but hey. It’s a kind of (mostly) chilled, summery thing not a major party playlist ^^
Just gonna sit outside with this on okay.
Repair
I saw that picture on here of that old couple, and it had a caption like ‘we’re from a generation where you fixed things instead of throwing them away.’ and they’d been married about 63 years or something.
I kinda thought about it for a bit when I saw it and, to me, it made a lot of sense. You get a lot of people who are quick to say they don’t care, they aren’t gonna change for anyone, ‘fuck the haters’ or people who instantly drop people from their life if they don’t work for them. But where does that get you? Of course, you shouldn’t put up with people - that’s no better. But where does disregarding people at their first mistake get you?
I notice that, not always but sometimes, they are the same people that find themselves lonely and upset. I sympathise because that’s never a fun place to be, nor is it deserved on anyone, but I don’t think there were anywhere near as many depressed, lonely or even suicidal people a couple of decades ago as there perhaps are now. People had to work together more, and a lack of friends meant you were doing very little that weekend. At least now you can use the computer or something. (hello Tumblr)
You can’t please everyone. You can’t be the perfect all rounder. You can’t like everyone. But ‘hating’ someone so easily is just silly. People who are like ‘oh I hate them they’re always posting pictures of themselves on Facebook’ well yeah that’s pretty annoying of them, but just hide it or ignore it. (Or better yet don’t use Facebook.) It shouldn’t cause you to dump them from your life. Or someone who perhaps thinks they’re a great guitarist but really aren’t. They might not be ‘arrogant’, they just don’t know. I dunno.
It’s about how many people and who you know. If you say hi to someone in the street from school, even if you rarely speak to them in school, maybe they’ll be more likely to lend you a pen the next day. Or maybe that girl that posts a lot of pictures actually turns out to be a pretty good photographer, and she’ll help you out with your art.
Anyway I’m making up random situations. But it stems from that point that people are quite easy to dispose of materials and objects. Without realising it, I think this has crept slightly into the way people treat each other; if they deem a relationship broken, deem a person unworthy or deem them as too different it is believed they aren’t worth the hassle and the relationship isn’t worth fixing.
The point of the picture was particularly focussed on the relationship part; if it doesn’t work out straight away then they aren’t ‘the best fit’ or the ‘one’ or whatever. Well, no. You wouldn’t know that for weeks I don’t think, if not months. I try and remember this… Though it’s hard to get a balance of ‘fixing it’ and ‘wasting time’.
You don’t have to like everyone - I can think of a number of people I don’t - but you can try. At worst, you waste a bit of time. At best, you gain a friend. At least that’s what I’m going to try and go by for now!
alecshao:
Anish Kapoor - 1,000 Names, 1979-1980 - mixed media and pigment
oh my god my dad just went out to walk the dog and he must have got halfway down the street and then he just came back and I was like “what’s the matter” and he just said really quietly “i forgot the dog” and my dog was just siTTING BY THE DOORSTEP WITH HIS LEASH ON LOOKING REALLY SAD kOMFGYOD
