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The other day I watched an episode of "Chapelle's Show", that made me think. Dave took different situations from his life and showed how he would've handled it as an 18 year old, as an 24 year old and as married man with the age of 30. What I saw was kinda the same thing, that I am about to witness in my life right now. Let me put it this way: The older you get, the less you care. About what? About everything! It's like Seinfeld described in his Stand-Up: Old people drive backwards out of their backyard, reckless and without looking for possible human casualties. Why? Because they think "I survived, let's see if you can!". As people get older, they kinda stop developing and start to resign. They learned a certain amount of things in life and they are good with it. Change on the other hand is dispensable, they simple don't care anymore. That's why, with the age of 18, I tried to convince my Mother that smoking weed is less harmful to body and soul than drinking alcohol everyday. It's not, that I had not enough good arguments to prove my point. The problem was, that I didn't know, that "good points" don't necessarily mean, you will win a dispute. So it went more like this: Me: "Mom, people die of alcohol EVERY DAY. How many weed-smokers have died from mariuhana?" To prove this point, I want to take you back to when I was like seven or something. Again, it's not that I had no point. It just didn't count. Me: "Mom, I don't wanna wear that nasty scarf. It's ugly! Besides, it's June, I don't think it's that cold outside anymore!"As I grew older, I found out, that Kids are very stupid. They believe everything their parents tell them. And I'm not talking about the Santa Claus type of shit. I remember when my mom was upset about some stuff I did after school on my way home. I was about eight or nine years old and I went from school to our house. On the way, there was this old Pick-Up Truck with a pick-axe in the back. I thought it would be a very cool idea to impress my friends by climbing on the back of the Truck, picking up that axe and waving it over my head. And so I did... (Impressive, huh?) Of course I was too stupid back then to realize, that parents have a very tight network working for them, when it comes to forbidden things that kids might do. It's kinda like the Secret Service, with the exception, that it isn't "Secret". It's called the "exited-kids-tell-everything-their-parents-and-those-parents-tell-everything-to-all-the-other-partens-they know"-network. So later that evening my mom got the news and fried my ass! She told me, that from now on she will be watching my every move. She told me, that she is going to observe me on my way from school to our house and that she will "always know what I am doing". I was stupid enough to believe that shit and I was scared as hell. So when I walked home after school, I kept constantly looking over my shoulders for my mother. Of course I couldn't see her because in fact she was working, but that never crossed my mind. I thought my Mom is just too clever and probably hides on the roofs of houses and shit. Back then, I was too young to know, that arguing with my mother will make things worse for me. But as time went by, I learnt: Convincing a woman from your opinion, has nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with being right or wrong. It all depends on her willingess. If she doesn't want you to be right, there is no way you can be. Believe me! It's easier to get Edward Scissorhands into an American Airlines flight to Washington D.C. than to convince a woman with plain arguments. Arguing with women is the most naive thing, that men can do. Arguing with women, that are older than you like your mother, is just plain stupid. You can not win. Mom: Stop yelling, or no TV for you for the rest of the week!Kids are stupid, but at least most of them are honest. As you get older, you lose some of that honesty. It's not like you're becoming a liar, but you just don't care so much anymore. I bet every man knows that stereotype about women being more mature and like five years ahead than men during puberty. No they ain't! They just lose their honesty faster. Remember when you were 13. As a boy, you don't gave a flying fuck about being a man, pretend to shave or drive fency cars. You liked sports, games and occasional you even played with your StarWars Action-Figures. You kept it real! Girls with 13 though, they pretend they are 20. Or better yet what they think, a 20 year old girl would be like. And right there is the difference between men and women. It starts right there: They lose honesty and they start pretending. And from there on, it'll never stop. I once heard I guy comparing women with dentists, because once you get involved with them, sooner or later they will hurt you. Although there is some truth in it, there is a magnificent difference between women and dentists: Dentists don't pretend. If a dentist tells you, everything is alright, you know it is indeed alright. If a women tells you "everything is alright", mostly it's not. I give you a common example of female prentension. You all heard it before: Women like men with humor. Men that are smart. "I don't care what he looks like, as long as he makes me laugh!". No shit? Ok guys. I want you to think about all the funny guys you know... Now think about all the handsome and rich, yet boring and blunt guys you know. Who's together with the chick you like most? ...Thats what I thought... I got drifted away. As you get older, you get used to things. The older you get, the more you hate "change". If you are a kid, you don't care for change. Mother: "This is your new father"I really believe there is a point, when people stop changing and start being. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just interesting to see, that we change so much growing up, but at some point, we're getting comfortable with ourselfs and everything around us. We start accepting things. It's exactly like in "Chapelle's Show": Your Girlfriend won't have sex you - With 18, you try to convince her. With 24, you break up and get a new one. With 30, you roll over and jerk off... |
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| © Etienne Gardé am 21.04.2005 | |