It was back to work today and it felt good
to be back especially to be back amongst so many smiling faces. I never tire of a smile and try and wear mine
as much as I can. I even got asked today
why I was grinning from ear to ear and at one point why I was laughing out loud
yet was on my own. Happy thoughts, just
happy thoughts and glad to be back at work, not sure how I will feel after my
return to work but then I understand the consequences of my actions over the
last week so hopefully no surprises. Time
at work went quickly and it was good to be going home after 4 hours. Why well come 7.30am I hit a wall with tired
written all over it in big red letters?
No it is not because I have not been pulling my finger out for the past week
having not been at work but more to the point that once again I did not get any
sleep last night at all. The reason was
largely down to some news I had earlier in the day but the fact a young couple
was holding a party until the early hours of the morning not a few doors away combined
with the heat did not help. The party
noise was punctuated by the cries of a young toddler calling out for his dad
throughout the night because he could not settle down to sleep due to the muggy
weather. I always feel for young kids
when they are not settled and it is difficult to explain to them that there is
very little that can be done sometime to ease the situation. I watched the clock tick its merry way around
to 2.30 and whilst I was doing so I continued to follow the adventures of
Arthur Dent.
I like Arthur he is my sort of chap, an ape
like descendant who’s home planet was destroyed by a bureaucratic mind numbingly
thick race of aliens called the Vogon’s.
A race that is big, butt ugly, ill tempered and generally considered to
be the meanest race in the known galaxy, I could challenge that claim but I
have only ever read about Vogon’s never met one. Saved by the wacky Ford Prefect he spends the
next few years traveling the universe being treated to numerous attempts by
various races to blow him up, falling in love, meeting the President of the
known galaxy, a depressed robot and learning to fly. Give him his due to took roughly 5 earth
years for him to go mad and a short space of time afterwards to find himself
somewhere that suited him down to the ground.
The majority of the time wearing his dressing gown, slippers and armed
with an electronic book, a towel and associated bags.
It was whilst reading that I put together
the news I had received early in the day, Arthur Dent and my thoughts on my
photography, specifically the word creativity together. The human race has, according to us, evolved
from a primate of some description over the last 50,000 years. Now I know evolution if you take our record
into account means progress, a positive thing, to become better and more
evolved! Really because I sometimes
doubt it especially when I see certain types of behavior! We appear to be unique in having the ability
cause others pain and misery without any just cause and appear to take pride
and joyment out of it. Sure it would
take a lot of monkeys and type writers before they recreated the works of
Shakespeare were as one ape like descendant could do that themselves. You give an monkey a stick he will not set
about beating others with it unless their personal or a member of their groups
safety was at stake. No he would wonder
off and find a hole in the ground or a tree and use it fish out whatever tasty
morsels were lurking inside. He would
not just wonder over to another member of the group and bash them on the head
just because they felt like it.
Well the current evolved version of the ape
like descendant does and appears in a lot of cases to show no remorse
either. It baffles me completely why
even at the most basic of levels, gossip for instance, we take pleasure or feel
the need to concern ourselves with the business and lives of others without
actually taking an interest in that person what so ever. In fact more often than not display nothing
but contempt and a lack of respect even though they do not know the individual
in question. The laughable thing about
it all is that the majority of the time they do not get anything right because
they make no effort to find out for themselves.
I could be wrong but you don’t see two Pigeons sat on a roof one saying
to the other, you see what Fred has been up to lately, the way he has been
flying, loved to know who he gets away with it.
Two beavers sat on the bank of a river and one says to the other “Just
look at that dam, they are just showing off as there was no reason to build it
that high and to use that type of wood.”
The other replies are we off to build one further down stream to which
the first replies “Why we can make use of this one?”
I never take any stock by gossip; let them
feel their boots I say but where I draw the line is when it upsets either the
person being targeted or someone else.
Sadly the majority of the time you only ever hear it via a third party,
gossip, or from the victim who experienced it in isolation. Is this what being evolved is being all
about? 50,000 years of evolution and
some resort to things like this, evolved my ar$e. We are so dependent on so much now a days, we
are becoming so cocooned in smaller and smaller groups and boxes. I know I harp on about them but computers, we
cannot survive without them now and removing them would without a shadow of a
doubt cause a breakdown in social order.
Imagine all the cash machines stop working, the majority of transactions
are by card now a days so there would be a mass rush to the banks to get money
out. They do not have enough to sustain
demand and there is not enough in circulation to cope either. We spend so much of our time in front of
screens of various sizes getting our fix on the world around us. Another reason I like photography it gets me
out and about actually exploring the world around me.
There was no money 50,000 years ago, you
found your food and water and shelter the best you could. The only thing that could fail is you if you
were not savvy enough. No going up to
the hole in the wall and panicking when your three rocks and two pebbles fail
to present themselves and it has eaten your leaf. I guess it was also more of you are not just
going out to diner but possibly becoming diner too! What about dating, courtship and love, I
guess it was a few grunts then it was all over.
Not much change there then?!
There was not waste, you ate your fill and nature had the rest.
But back to my point, on the whole the
animal kingdom tends to work as a group for the good of the group. Even action or reaction is for the good of
the whole and not the strangely perverse pleasure of one individual. So if this is what being evolved is all about
someone give me a stick and point me in the direction of the nearest
anthill. I do not think digital watches
are a good idea and hate the thought that pushing blue and brown pieces of
paper or wielding a piece of plastic is an exciting idea. In some respects I think it was a bad idea
coming down from the trees, some say leaving the oceans was a bad idea.
This then got me thinking again, I know all
these thoughts in such a short space of time, just goes to show what a lack of
sleep does for one. I have been trying
to get my life into some sort of order, something I can relate to and work with
and in order to do that I have been making things a lot simpler and changing
much of what I do. If you know this blog
or me you know what I am on about. A
fresh start of sorts and that is where the latest thought comes in. It is not the first time I have had this
thought or shared it with anyone but it keeps coming up so there must be
something in it. Having lived in
Thatcham all my life maybe it is time for a change of scene, somewhere new with
new opportunities. Naturally it is not
going to happen short term, one needs to short out a few things first but it is
worth keeping a mindful eye on that one.
Now I have a question on a serious matter,
you know the toilet roll manufacturer who planets a new tree for every pack of
rolls sold? Well at what point do we
start patting our bottoms with loo paper made from those, just a thought? Also why are my M&M’s smaller than the
ones on TV?
Well I am off now as it is off to the
doctors tomorrow which is possibly going to mean another rollicking and I have
a chap coming around about the flat. Oh
if you were wondering what the shock news was the other day it looks like I
might have to move as the landlord wants to sell up. Not excellent news when there is no money to
live on let alone move. That means
getting the duster and hoover out, tidying the spare room, putting out the
rubbish and acting causal and normal when he comes around. I might struggle with the last part but hey
tell me what natural and normal is and I will give it a try. I also have a battle with the local Council
to wager but as I know how they work so I might just have the advantage there
or a lot of fun!
So I am off to continue the adventures of
Arthur Dent and then face a quandary as to what to read next. I have the 50 Shades of Grey series on my
Kindle but I think that will be just too much excitement for this clean living chap. I think somewhere on my Kindle there is a
book containing 50 Photographic Projects, I might take a scan through that. You see that is the problem when you have
over 400 books in your library it is decided what to chose next.
Before I forget I would also like to openly
thank everyone who has provided words of support, all have been warmly welcome
and helpful. I also found out that I
have a new reader of my blog, one that took me by surprise too and before you
say anything yes today’s post was a bit of a rant but it is sometimes better
out than in.
Take care, sleep well and smile as much as
you can, trust me if feels so good.
Si x
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