Mishaps

Yoza was saying, sometimes it would be great to laugh about his relationship with Pia. Ridiculously stupid things that are still funny years later, or what was taken seriously at the time but with increasing maturity has become a joke.

I have the same inclination, but it's just a thought, for the greater good.

We steer clear of the person(s) involved, and instead exchange stories amongst ourselves and laugh, and then wonder whether we should be laughing at all. It isn't always funny, and in fact it often isn't. Because after some time you start seeing yourself in a completely different light.

It's irritating the way that older people are almost always right. So 16-year-olds don't know love if it was pounding them in the arse. I didn't know that when I was 16. Why didn't anyone tell me? Oh wait, they did. And I don't need Eugene to remind me on a weekly basis that one day I will be 26 and telling my pharmacy assistant how naive it is for her to expect life to unfold like a bedtime story.

And you also begin to realise that your head was snugly up your wazoo when you thought that you were perfect. You wonder if you were developmentally challenged to have been completely oblivious to your selfish, unreasonable and inconsiderate self. The blame shifts a little bit, but you keep it tipped to the other side of the scale. Just 'cause.

Personally I believe my biggest flaw is hypocrisy. And yes, I'm still flawed.