Again, since my creativity title-wise has been defeated by an image of a very famous grandad with a hat, I'll just leave him as a title. First things first, though:

Ако не искаш да четеш/не разбираш английски език, погледни в архивите и ще си намериш нещо на български. Този пост ще бъде на английски.

Right then, with this out of the way...

What I'm going to write about today is a very old topic in its essence -- Being told what to and what not to do. However, don't worry, my concerns aren't morals, nor laws, no. It's something far less... well, bluntly put, far less serious and far less boring.

I'm talking about... well, let me quote:

"How can you like playing that?"

"How can you enjoy lifting weights?"

"How can you watch that much TV/movies/whetever?"

"How can you dedicate that much time into anything at all?"

Why should I dedicate time into something I enjoy, you ask? Isn't that quite a silly question? And this isn't just about me -- like always, I'm talking in general here. To me, all these questions sound like a big pile of bull, which could be worded like "I want you to enjoy yourself by doing this and this!"

My question would be "Why should I do something other than what I enjoy in my free time?"

I ask you: how can you not understand that people do what they enjoy (outside their work) because they enjoy it? You ask me how can person A play games for four hours a day, or more? Simply because he/she enjoys it. He relaxes by doing so. It's his leisure activity. From his/hers point of vue, why should he do anything different?

Why can't people accept hobbies that do not match theirs? I mean, if you don't do what most do, then you suddenly don't fit the pattern, do you? Oh, dear lord, whatever shall we do now. Reading is barely accepted, writing -- practically in the weird zone, but that activity doesn't really matter because almost nobody does it anymore (reaching a stage, where people with a lot of diplomas have decided that literature should have meaning and it's worthless if it's just for leisure purposes). Playing games is considered as 'nerdy', listening to music as 'lonely' and 'unsociable', playing any type of instrument -- awe-inspiring (ofc, not that kind of awe that makes other people respect the person, but rather that type of awe that is more like a synonym for 'file under different - weird people').

"You should be outside, talking with others in your spare time! Not doing anything listed above! I would at least."

Has anybody not thought about the mere fact that maybe, just maybe, I, and probably a lot more people, don't want to do what most do? Actually, I'd probably spend a lot more time at home. While for a lot of people being out is Paradise, for me five, six hours spent with anyone but a selected number of people that I know since the dawn of time means Hell. It bores me. It annoys me. Sorry, but this is my way of getting at least some rest from the permanent chains that are society.

Why should I stop doing something that I enjoy? Why shouldn't I do it? It's my choice.

And this stereotype-for-leisure trend is only getting worse. People are starting to tell me when to have fun, how to have fun, WHERE to have it even on a bigger scale -- where to spend my vacations, at which exact school year I should be doing most of my parties, how should I do them. I mean, giving a holiday once in a month, which is practically saying 'have fun on that date', is generally regarded as good, but saying "you should have more fun this year than any other" is getting a bit too far. And I've heard the latter. It's like telling me I should be growing up this school year (which I've also heard). My answer to that is, "Okay, so at what day do I get to stab you in the face? Must be on the leisure list, no?"

I mean... damn! Can't I simply have fun when I want to, how I want to, with whom I want to? Isn't this my goddamn time off?

In my opinion, and what I personally do when somebody tells me something along the lines of "I personally can't imagine myself doing that for enjoyment, how can anybody enjoy it?"

I tell them:

"It's quite simple, really. Everyone is not you. Shocking twist, but deal with it somehow. Think you'll live."

Finally, a post in English. First though, a note to my (potential) non-English-reading readers.

Ако не разбираш/ не искаш да четеш постове на английски, погледни по-старите постове. Част от тях са на български.



I'll use this instead of any other title. Because it is better than any other title.

What struck me some time ago, like a week or so, was a sentence. A single sentence, which could practically give you a very good idea of what exactly people pay to become a full time member of society.

I really hope you don't stop reading now. Bear with me for a while. Yes, it's one of those anti-society rants, yes, I'm still a part of that same society I'm ranting about... But! Here's the but that's always expected. I believe me, as well as you, the readers, are grown men or more probably women (sorry, folks, world ratio men to women is 40:60 percent, so there's a higher chance that my reader will be a woman) have the perfectly available choice to decide exactly what and for what to pay to become a part of society.

God, that was a long sentence.

Anyway, what struck me was the following sentence in a site that supposedly has some content of "unpopular belief". Lo, and behold what was there, what was in that site that many people would call "bad, stupid, brainless and occultic even":

(with a bit of paraphrase)"We tolerate your beliefs. We tolerate your standards and your religions. We tolerate you. All we ask for is that you do the same -- leave us alone, in peace. We do not oppose your beliefs, we do not mock them. Please don't mock ours."

Now, is it me, or is this quite more intelligent than let's say, half of the fanatical Christians (emphasis on fanatical). It would seem that, just because some beliefs are shared by more people, this majority feels like it should impose its beliefs on everybody else... Convert into believing in Jesus Christ or crucify the non-believers.

Btw, I'm not having anything specific against Christianity specifically, and I'm not an atheist, I'm just against what people do "in the name of God" (although they should add "... and a lot of gold/epeen).

Which returns us to the picture. Yes, it's a picture of zombies. Yes, zombies are mythical, unusual, outside of society creatures, just like whoever wrote that citation (or at least, close to a citation) if we simply stop at that. Unusual, mysterious, not exactly fitting in ("Doh, he/she's like .. a zombie!!!").

However, as to the part of "randomly, brainlessly chasing people that actually use their brains and simply throwing masses and masses of beings until there are no thought left alive"... You probably see where I'm going. As always, like somebody quite smart said... people are driven by two things -- their fears and their sense of entitlement. And it would seem everybody feels entitled to crush the minority's beliefs. I actually searched for a picture where a zombie was chased by a mob of people.

After all, they(the "zombies" in our case) are the minority, right? Who cares about them?

And, since the majority wanting to crush the minority is a fact... we can only hope that society doesn't really have a pyramidal structure (intellect-wise), where the few are actually the smart ones. Since they will soon be extinct.

Ah well, who needs a functioning brain anyway? You can just do whatever everybody else is doing, right? So don't worry. Quickly line up, everybody! Step right up for society! Line up, hand over your brain, you won't even need it anymore... After all, once you're in the angry mob of mostly clueless people chasing after the outsiders, you won't really need anything, will you?