The other day I went to the doctor to get my knee checked out. It’s been swelling up and hurting a lot, or as they say in the business, “causing great discomfort”. Knees are pretty important, and the pair I have are pretty much gone, hence my inability to jump even close to as high as I used to back in the days of high school when I used to jump straight to the maths rooms (C2.3) from the basketball courts because I was too lazy to walk up the oval.
Anyways, turns out my knees are kinda funny and though there are no torn ligaments or tendons it’s either that I have a rough knee cap or more probably have bits of cartilage floating around in my knee for my right knee, whilst on my left knee my leg bone (tibia) is just sticking out. It was kinda weird how nonchalant the doctor was when telling me that my bone is just sticking out. I spose when you see people who are going to die from cancer and things, a bone sticking out is really nothing. Also, this bone sticking out thing is only seen in little children as they grow, and she jokingly told me to stop being a kid and to be a man. If I had a dollar every time I heard that I’d have a substantial amount of money. Possibly enough for a movie ticket or a white under shirt at Target.
Speaking of money, there are quite a lot of things you can pick up about humans in general from facebook. I know what you’re thinking: How can facebook be a true interpretation of society if key members of the universe such as Ameya and Lo Zio are not, or at times even falsely, represented to the masses which we have affectionately come to know as the Internet Peoplez Inc. Well, my friends, a grape doesn’t make a vineyard, a stick doesn’t make a forest and just cos we know Phat, it doesn’t make every dude in the universe a straight out pimp. I’m not really sure what I meant by all that, but doesn’t matter. So back to facebook, and if it’s taught us anything at all it is that people love relating to each other, liking my burns of R. Swami (which are now available for the universe to enjoy) and that we like to do quizzes.
On the first point, if you just look at the thousands of likes that pages about relationships and struggles through life and everything in general, it will easily show you that, even though everyone really is different, we all are the same. I think the same thing can be said about songs as well and how people will be amazed at how ‘this song describes exactly how I feel right now!’ And I think it’s kinda sad and happy that everyone goes through the same stuff, we all lose the people we love, we all lose at goals in life, and we all win sometimes. I’m just waiting for that last ‘sometime’ to come I spose.
On the point about the quizzes, I think that is very revealing about our character as well. I think we are all keen to ‘find out’ about our ‘future’, and I think it’s in the human nature to not be happy sitting down, so to speak. I think when we were younger, we were all so keen to become a teenager so we could have more fun and stuff, and now everyone is keen to know what they will be when they get a full time job, or what kind of husband or wife they’ll get or make. Or what kind of Lord of the Rings character they are.
And just another thing I’ve noticed about the human way of life is the way in which we say that we ‘fall’ in love. Fall is a very interesting word to use, because first of all, it’s a verb that describes movement in one direction only. I think that alone is very clever. Also, the choice of ‘fall’ is also interesting in the sense that when you think of falling in the normal sense, everyone knows that if you fall or trip it’s going to hurt if someone doesn’t catch you. Yet somehow I think many of the universe will be guilty of not thinking this in terms of love. I wonder who first thought of using the word ‘fall’. Pretty interesting.
Something else that I remembered the other day. Hobos. I was telling Rohan and Doug that I really suck at getting past charity people and I always end up getting sucked into donating to charity stalls and stuff. And it reminded me how Bryan is convinced that there is this one hobo in the city who makes sixty grand a year from, well, being a hobo. Regardless of whether this fact is true or not, what is more ridiculous is where Bryan gets all this ridiculous information from. It’s like how he’s convinced that Vegemite is made from ants. And that’s why there is ‘mite’ in its name. True story. Crazy bloke.
My aunty left back for America today. That was sad. But I’m really happy that I saw her as well, and really got to meet her for what is really the first time because the last time I saw her I was around 3 years old and that doesn’t even count. She’s heaps nice and she really reminds me of my mum and so naturally she’s awesome. I love meeting people, and when it is your family it is a billion times better because you see characteristics in them that you see in your other family members and in yourself too.
Anyways, I think I’ll just cap it off there. For all of you that haven’t before, go listen to “the Special Two” by Missy Higgins. Great song, and it makes me sad when I listen to it. Great lyrics, and I think for all of us some of the lyrics will ‘describe how we feel exactly’ at one point of our lives. Anyways, good luck with your exams everyone and ‘til next time, laters homies.
