State of Origin

Australian Culture. The Footy Head. The beer by the telly while screaming at the players who are thousands of miles away. Are we really just a country of social norms?

The State Of Origin was on recently and it has again failed to interest me. It has lost it's touch.

As a youngen I used to love nothing more than sitting in front of the TV with my family watching these no-necked men play wrestles. But now, I would rather sit in my room and listen to music. Seems very anti-social and emo, but i literally love listening music in my room.

Social Pressure. That's what it comes down to, basically. When I was young, I had no influence on what I watched when I think about it, because if I didn't watch it, I would be excluded from lunchtime and recess conversation for the whole month that it was circulating the newspapers and film rolls. I would be a loner, and I would do anything to be one of "them." Sitting in front of the Music Room with their cool little Power Rangers lunch boxes and playing their super cool Pokemon gold games.

I wasn't an uncool kid. I had friends, and many of them. Never got bullied. But I was just very influenced by what was going on around me and most kids these days are.

It's the moment you reach the later years in school when you realise that everyone is an individual. That you can actually have your own ways and values. You can be yourself.

Sure, people do go against these social pressures much younger. But these people are strong minded. They know what they want. In the later years it is the weaker minded people who can finally come out to play.

The State of Origin was merely a segue to talk about this scope of life.

Thankyou.