I guess THIS is growing up.

There's something I'd like to talk to you about today, concerning growing up.

And that is this- I don't think that many of us out here in Australia have actually done it. Grown up I mean.

It's like, when we finally emerged from the oily, sebacious gland pus of teenage behaviour, and eventually gave way under the crushing weight of jobs, bills, and trying to still feel alive, we forgot the inner component of growing up, and just kinda made a lifestyle out of going through the motions.

Being adult to me, isn't about resembling an ad for a home lean company, or any ad for that matter. If you could watch my everyday life as an ad on tv, not one of you would be even remotely interested in buying it (unless you were in prison).

My girlfriend doesn't look all pretty in a cashmere turtle neck reclining on the Italian leather sofa. She's friends with people like Mick from Slipknot, is a pro bartender, and could crush your spine one handed, without physics being even remotely problematic. I don't have a car. My puppies are very dangerous if you haven't been introduced to them. I can't remember the last time I ate anything even remotely related to actual food. But through it all, I do have one thing most people do not.

Respect.

Remember that? We're living in an increasingly litigious age, that has fed off the decline (in Western culture anyway), of personal responsibility. We're so self-involved now, that we make excuses for the most appaling and antisocial behaviours. It's all "me, me me" now, which would be fine if you didn't have to coexist with "us, us, us". Help the woman lift her pram into the bus, and thank the driver on your way out. People look at me like I'm insane when i do this, but hey, guess what? He's a human being!

Don't preview all of the ringtones on your new phone in the elevator. Don't throw your chewing gum on the pavement, some of us have carpet you know. Don't ever smoke anything around another living creature ever. Don't tailgate. Use manners. Don't spit, it's gross, pig. And if you drink so much you do something dumb or otherwise out of character, suck shit. You still did it.

Why? because we all have to share, and be considerate, and get along. If you decide you're more important than everyone else, then the whole thing falls over, and the next thing you know, someone is stabbing you and taking your wallet, because they've just realised they too, can be more important than everyone else, and they are tougher than you are. See how that works?

You know the world is fucked up when it takes a heavily tattooed rock guitar player from the ass end of Australia to tell you how manners work.

Be nice humans. You don't need to be a hippie (thankfully!) to see it will eventually come back to you.


This is knifey, from 'the internet'.