i think now that i would have liked to have been able to vote.
not for any patriotic reason of shaping the direction that our nation is taking. not for any sort of belief that my vote matters and will determine the makeup of our government for the next 5 years. my logical mind says that the significance of one vote amongst 3 million others has an effective significance of nil. (is this being cynical?)
it's just that... it looks like fun.
watching from my window as people are admitted into the polling station downstairs. a police officer checks their identity at the gate before directing them in. i watch as they walk up the empty driveway, and make their way into the silent, forbidding building.
it's the whole 'forbidden fruit' thing... i look at them passing through the gates, and get the feeling that they are getting involved in something important and secret and significant, which is exactly what it is, i suppose. i want to do that too.
i suspect the feeling will disappear once i have actually tried it once.
part of it is also the curiosity. of seeing democracy in action, seeing how the polling is actually conducted, attempting to spot security breaches. =).
unfortunately, i have been undermined being born approximately 10 months and 6 days too late. and any smart person would have immediately realised that they can derive my exact date of birth from there.
something else which i have realised about my writing style is that i am absolutely incapable of adding meaningful titles to my posts. well, not absolutely. but seeing as i tend to jumble up all manner of miscellaneous things into the length of a single post, then one title isn't ever going to be sufficient now, is it?
miscellaneous things such as the following.
i believe that throughout the 20-plus years of my life thus far, the only compliment i have ever heard from any female member of the human race, and been deemed worthy of possessing, is 'cute'. and seeing as one of these female-members-of-the-human-race (FMOTHR for short, ok?) (*looks quite offensive, actually*) was sufficiently kind enough to clarify 'cute' to mean 'ugly, but adorable', i'm not sure it's much of a compliment.
that is something which i have been strenuously attempting to explain to certain to certain FMOTHRs, that 'cute' is hardly the kind of reaction that guys attempt to extract from girls.
so perhaps some of them have said 'smart', and 'genius' and other such comments on my intellectual capacity. i view these not so much as compliments, but observations. =). and the only other positive thing i have ever heard from them is 'cute'.
even from FMOTHRs younger than me. what an indignity.
