I don't
apologise because while my impressions of this city might change in the future, as of now the description accurately reflects how I feel and I, along with everyone else in the country, am entitled to express it.
I haven't been around the sun a significant number of times but it seems the rate at which people get offended has increased a great deal.
Social media is to blame I figure, and the media itself at times.
Our lives are flooded with so much useless information, it's like our lives have become one great big water cooler office conversation.
Just because someone doesn't share the same opinion as you, or does something you don't like, doesn't mean you need to take offence.
Personally, I couldn't care less about what some plonker sitting behind a computer or smartphone has to say about it.
And after taking a quick look on social media, a great many people feel the same way about the quick-to-take-offence brigade.
They like to use social media to express how offended they are. I haven't a clue why they think the whole world needs to know.
We've reached the point now where people are taking offence to someone taking offence.
By engaging in this behaviour they're making the world more depressing and hateful. They're also closing their mind to alternative viewpoints, in my view.
There is a time and a place to be offended though, I do acknowledge that. However, offensiveness can simply mark the starting point of social change or leaps in knowledge.
The Rolling Stones were once deemed offensive, as were flared jeans, Avante guard art, obnoxious V8s, heck, even the concept that the world revolved around the sun was once deemed offensive and dangerous.
The music we listen to, clothes we wear, people we date, the way we cut our hair; it all came from someone being brave enough to offend others.
The world would be a worse place than it already is — if you can imagine that — if we didn't have people who pushed the boundaries.
What you've got to remember is you live on this planet with 6 billion other people and not everyone is going to love what you love. We're all different.
Don't be afraid to push the boundaries or about whether you might offend someone.
Get that mullet, wear those funky pants, don't shower if you don't want to ... actually, please don't stop showering.
By now you're probably thinking one of two things: Do I get offended or not? And this joker (i.e. me) has got offended at people getting offended.
I can see how you'd arrive at that point but what I'm trying to say is you shouldn't throw getting offended out of the window, just pick your battles.
