We've Only Just Begun
(PSB - Being Boring)

She was never bored because she was never boring.

One of my favourite pet shop boys songs is about the ideals that you have when you're younger and how they turn out as you grow older. Kind of interesting to think back to that age and what you thought the world would be when you grew older. How completely naive we were and yet how completely convinced we were that we had a solid grasp of the differences between right and wrong. And then comparing it to what we believe today. For me it's night and day.

Just for a good laugh, I'll tell you this -- at around age 12, I thought I'd wait til I found the right girl and was married before I had sex. By age 16 I had revised this belief to waiting til I was 18, the legal age of sexual consent. I might have made that up. By age 17 I thought, what the heck, I don't have to wait. It was ok because I had met my one true love and would marry her one day. And by age 19 I thought she was a lying, cheating, fat whore. That just got awkward. Some people call me a cautionary tale. :P

So what does it say if the difference in our beliefs is radically different today than what it was back then? Have we grown and matured along with some of our ideals? Have we revised our beliefs to justify our actions? Or have we become jaded and lost hope in those pipe dreams? They're probably all correct for different people or even different points in a person's life. I just find it interesting to chart the natural path of our beliefs and ideals.

Before I get too serious, I'll tell you this. Even though I feel as though I've grown immensely as a person over the years, I really miss being a kid. Kids are highly impressionable which I think is completely to their benefit. Being impressionable means you can easily find inspiration. Being inspired is the first step to finding your passion.