By fizzysid 1 year, 5 months ago.
“That’s just an accident waiting to happen”. And you know it, and you look at that precariously balanced cup of coffee next to your important paperwork and you know, that any minute the two will become acquainted…
... But that doesn’t stop the customary string of cursing that follows.
Why is it that we do this? Why, when we have a perfectly working sense of cause and effect, do we still neglect to use it?
Most of the time, I disregard my mildly self-detrimental behaviour, shrugging it off by the law that is “be young, be foolish, be happy”... However, I’m beginning to run out of excuses to tell myself.
I mean, you know when you’re younger, that attending classes and working hard is the apparent key to success in this modern society, yet you’d rather be happy. So you skip class and nip off to spend your lunch money on a can of fizz and a packet of smokes. Be young, be foolish, be happy, right?
But then… You also know that leaving a plastic vintage toy on top of your radiator is a bad idea, and that at some point you’re going to completely forget and turn the radiator on… But you still do it.
How on Earth can you excuse that, other than pure stupidity?
You spend all week eating piles upon piles of cakes and crisps and meaty main courses, all washed down with a bottle of wine and, let’s be honest, you know full well you’re packing on the pounds… But it doesn’t stop you crying out when you step on the scales.
This stupidity never only befalls you once though, does it? Oh no. This is endless.
You’re over 40 now, and you still drag that wobbly spoonful of tomato soup towards your gob, knowing perfectly well it’s going to make a dive for that new white shirt… And you still ask yourself why you’re such a blithering idiot when the stain won’t come out.
