As per
my mum’s request, I decided to start a blog .Apparently appalled at the amount
of time I spent doing nothing, not unjustly I should probably add, her comment
was probably a way of pushing me towards some sort of a creative outlet; that
it was mentioned after i tried to show her my fledgling guitar skills speaks
wonders!
But, to
be fair, she has a point. So, fine reader(s) of the internet, you are humbly
invited to bear witness to the lashings of greatness I’m about to beat down upon
you like a maelstrom of awesome.
Ok not
quite, but I do have a few rules that I promise I will follow to avoid this
turning into a beige mishmash of trivial. Firstly, I will not try and imbibe
every detail of what i write about with greatness. Anyone who’s spent any time
with me will realise my hatred of the “Hollywood” generation; where everything
has to be impregnated with meaning, where every perceived significant event has
to correspond with an equally significant character development. It doesn’t and
I refuse to believe that it does.
Second,
I will never NEVER try and write like a travel journalist. If i see somewhere
cool I will not have “stumbled across it”, nor will I have “wandered into a cool
niche in the corner of Berlin”. If i fall into the trap of sounding like a
lonely planet journalist each one of you has the mandate to come here and give
me a swift backhand. I’m not here to say what’s cool or to try and follow a
trend, I’m here to fool about with the pretense of learning a language (as an
amusing aside, my copy of word just tried to autocorrect pretense into
preteens).
So when
i write something and it seems trivial, that’s because it is and I’m too lazy
to think of something else. In fact I’m sure this will make me a much less
realistic person when I’m 50 and stuck behind a desk: as long as i remember
that Berlin wasn’t all one ridiculous party then that’s going to do wonders for
my career prospects, aka I won’t quit my job and move back in here in a spate
of nostalgia and Naïveté.
Without further ado, let’s get started with my
entirely selfish and introspective blog! (thanks mum!)
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