My reasons for selecting this new mode of presentation are simple:
- The old title; Matt's Monday Meltdown, was too limiting. Limiting in the fact that I could only publish on Mondays, and I think far too much to only publish on Mondays.
- It was two years ago and I just don't like that title any more
In advancement to my studies, I have progressed quite happily to the end of my degree. Unfortunately, if there is one thing such a philosophically, sociologically and generally critic-thinking-grounded course has taught me, it's that I should discredit the grand narratives of life. By grand narratives I mean the stories that shape our beliefs, behaviours, actions, opinions, ways of thinking, ways of doing.
What I have began to consider lately is that for my entire life, I have been processed by some institution or other. I go in, some stuff happens, and I come out. I live my life incrementally, in terms of results- and I am sure we all do in this common western system. This is literal. We sit exams, wait for results, we have job interviews, wait for results, we urinate in a little tube, wait for results- we seem to see everything in terms of it's ends.
What am I getting at? You're asking. I don't want ends! I just want to be. I have a comfortable situation right now. I sit, look out, try to discover things about the world, trying every day to gain a better understanding of it, and in particular the things people do to it!
Alas, I must soon become another worker in the hive. Someone at the feet of hierarchies, at the whim of grand narratives. I won't be free until I am a man doing what he really, really wants to do, and by then, I'll have probably used my sting.
On the lighter side...
I am very much looking forward to spending the week with my girlfriend- she has been, to adapt the words of the wonderful Dolly Parton, my rainbow out of the rain. It will also be good to get back into Yorkshire, where the tap water isn't directly sourced from local swimming pools. I swear my bath water had a verruca sock in the other day...
Also, very excited to see old friends from Doncaster a week on Monday for a meal at my favourite restaurant. You donny-ers will know Central Park and its delights- everyone else, I recommend it. You can even take your Gran because the food isn't all spicy. What is it about spicy food that offends the over-50s? They all love it once they've tried it. Might even help to preserve their teeth a bit.
My friend is IMing me over MSN, so I will get back to him before he gets so bored that he has to watch UFO documentaries.
TTFN! x
Coming next time: Haunted Lincoln. Spooky.
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