a bit of tomfoolery

4. a song that brings back memories and why.

oh goodness, there’s too many to count. i suppose i’ll talk about the song Angel by Shaggy. it’s a pretty old song that i’ve known about for years, but it wasn’t until earlier on this year that i attached a memory to it. 

It was my friends 18th birthday celebration and she had planned out a pretty interesting day. she had decided that she wanted to have a tea party or her 18th birthday… oh the irony. it turned out to be really fun though, we got dressed up in tea party clothing and rode a limo to this fancy hotel that served us fancy tea and fancy hors d’oeuvres. it was lovely. afterwards we were in the limo driving around seaport village and the sun was setting. Angel by Shaggy came on and we just started belting it out with the sun roof down and everything. people on the street were giving us odd stares because whenever we got to the verses we would just mumble stuff really loudly. i still don’t understand what shaggy says during the song. whenever i hear that song i can’t help but smile at the weirdness me and my friends share.

7. something you feel strongly about.

the end of chivalry. i’ve written about this before and with some people i’ve had very long discussions about this.

i don’t dislike chivalry per se, but i dislike the idea of it and don’t understand why people can be all gung-ho about it. why is it that people assume and expect the guy to do all this crap for a girl, but not the other way around? relationships are supposed to be reciprocal, so if the guy is putting all this effort to make a girl happy, shouldn’t the girl be doing the same?

Also, it’s archaic! girls shouldn’t expect guys to be chivalrous or whatever. it puts quite a bit of pressure on the guy. i mean don’t get me wrong, if a guy decides to do something nice like pay for a girl’s dinner, it should be appreciated. it’s a nice gesture. but it’s a nice gesture when anyone does it and just because a girl has a vagina doesn’t entitle her to be treated better. Girls need to grow the eff up and stop expecting to be treated like a princess and be pampered. you can take care of your own damn self, for goodness sake. be independent and stop putting all this pressure on the guy to make a crap load of money to pay for your materialistic ass. 

a girl can’t support equality and chivalry at the same time. “i want to be a man’s equal, but treat me better,” doesn’t exactly make sense. 

and on another note, with old-fashioned gender role beliefs like chivalry, any girl who expects chivalry should be expected to make their man a sandwich.

17. a night you wish you could relive

sadly enough, i can’t think of any amazing night i’d like to relive (at least not at the moment).

20. who has made the largest impact on your life.

cliched as it is, my mom has made the largest impact on me. she is the principle person who molded me into who i am. who else has been there for me nine months before i was born until this very second and has been as close to me? no one. i have adopted a lot of her qualities throughout the years, along with a lot of her beliefs.

my mom and i have a ridiculously close bond. i love her with all my might.