Serious Introduction

For me, the past two years have been characterised by a medley of disappointment, despair and lack of direction. Without going into strenuous details - because those details are exceptionally boring - the combination of those three characteristics has caused considerable discomfort and unhappiness. Without being all 'woe is me', it is difficult to take in some major life changes that are happening around you, while you yourself are restricted by things that are completely outside your control. Whilst most of my friends were off to university, I instead found myself considering which exams to retake, whether to go back to school, and even whether to bother applying for university at all.

Of course, that all misses out something which is exceptionally important and integral to anyones life. And that is that your life is what you make it.

A bit of context is required, and it would be silly for me to think that everything is always bad, and that things that have happened to me are worse than what have happened to others. All in all, I am actually pretty lucky - I have friends, I have a partner, I have a job, and I have quite good future prospects. But, of course, the thoughts and feelings of rationality are over-come with almost irresponsible self-deprecation and negativity. This is because people (in general) find it hard to look past the present and into the future. They only see the vague abyss that blights their life for that small, probably benign, part of their existence. Looking beyond that, though, then I do see positivity. Things that have happened recently really hit home the good things in life, which is sort of funny because they appear because of the bad. But anyway.

Ignoring most of what I have already written, I am a soon-to-be student of the world and its concepts, philosophies and theories. A plethora of interests that I maintain include football, modern politics, music, poetry, philosophy, society as a system, generalisations and extremely offensive humour. Apologies in advance for all of my opinions, but please remember that they are both my own and also correct.

This seems like a serious enough introduction to be getting on with!