I, myself...

I, myself...

This phrase annoys me. It's like saying Me, me... Why refer to yourself twice? As far as I'm concerned if I write or say "I", I must be referring to myself. I'm not referring to someone else. The phrase is useless and asinine.

I think that people who use this phrase just want to sound more intelligent than they really are. Or maybe they believe that it makes them sound like a thoughtful individual who has put a lot of personal time and effort into whatever revelation it is they are about to impart to their unsuspecting audience.

Imagine if I was talking to you and I kept referring to you as, You, yourself... You'd think I was a bloody idiot. Even if I said it once you'd think I was a knob. And the reason for that is because if I did call you, You, yourself... then I would be a knob and I would deserve your contempt.

In my opinion, "I, myself...", makes me think that the person perpetrating this inane utterance is a self important turd. I wrote above that it's like saying Me, me... But on reflection what it's really saying is: Me. ME!  What I'm about to say is so damn important that I need to be recognised twice. And I need it to be me who is telling you it's me. ME!

ME, ME, ME, ME MEEEEEE!

The Problem With Being Me

The problem with being me is that I've become quite cynical. I haven't always been this way, in fact I was far from it for many years, but it's the way I am now. I don't particularly like being this way but it's something that I think has become necessary for survival.

The world has changed dramatically since I was a youngster in the 1960's and 70's. I was born near the start of the radical changes that began in the 60's. Here, in Australia, our society was a step or two behind the rest of the world in the 70's and now that I'm of an age to be able to reflect I can see that that was a good thing. In this country we managed to hang on to our naivety for a little longer than the rest of the world.

Just a little longer.

And I was lucky enough to grow up in that time.