You ever think about how much more boring we get as we get older? Like I was sitting here, thinking about what to write and I thought...I could talk about the weather. And don't get me wrong, I love talking about the weather. I talk about the weather all the time. It's one of the few things in life we can all agree on. What the weather is. And most of us have similar if not identical opinions on it. See! I'm going on some random tangent about the weather right now!
When I was younger, I thought people who talk about the weather are the most boring, uninteresting people on the planet. Such a dry...unexciting topic of conversation. But you know what? Somewhere down the line (and I'm only 26) I got to a place where I am now fighting the urge to write multiple paragraphs about the weather.
This reminds me of the time I was at a music festival and I got really high, and I confessed one of my dark secrets to the boyfriend of a friend of a friend...
My dark secret...was that I kind of wanted to get into bird watching.
I'm not kidding by the way, I went in to a full on rant about how I would never ever want to be the kind of boring sod who looks at birds, and that I've been fighting the urge to get into it more and more as I get older. Now at the time...honestly I don't even know what this boyfriend guy thought, he was just going along with it. But I recounted this story to my friends at the festival and they were all pretty entertained by the concept that I thought bird watching was an embarrassing hobby, which they apparently didn't.
(5 minutes later)
So alright, I just sent out a couple messages to get feedback on this topic and my friends seem to also think that bird watchers are weird saddos. Although one of them did say it's fine to do on your own just not with a group of old people so...take from that what you will.
I'm not gonna lie, I am for sure relaying this feedback to the initial festival group to get further insight into the wider perspective on this matter.
We need to get to the bottom of whether or not it's lame to bird watch. I will have an update for you next week.