I've always wanted to be a bachelor...
18 April 2005
Time is a strange thing.Sometimes you notice it, sometimes it's in the background like white-noise (which reminds of when I used to work near Wynyard, and go and sleep in the park at lunchtime when I was tired...and the really noisy, but constant volume/pitch vent in the park....but that's another story).
I graduate this week. Four years of blood, sweat and coding, and I will finally get a piece of paper. Seems rather ludicrous sometimes. At least now I get the title Bachelor of Computer Nerd. Now all I have to do is remove myself from my female-populated flat dwelling state to a Bachelor pad, and I'm all set. Oh, to not have many female hairs in the bathroom! Still, general guy hygiene is much worse, so I really shouldn't whinge. My flatmates are actually quite insanely clean now that I think about it.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand. As I look back over the last four years, I see alot of change in me, and none at all at the same time. At one level, I feel I have grown alot, mostly through the harder moments. Still, I don't like suffering, even though I know that I never grow in the good times - in fact, in the good times, I'm usually a total butthead to the people around me.
But it is clear that I am, in many ways, a different person to the one I was four years. I've grown as a man, as a Christian, as a musician, as a nerd (doh!).
On another level, though, I'm still the same old Newcastle-music-beach-and-laziness-loving Martyn. You can take the boy out of Newy, but you can't the Newy out of the boy.
What freaks me out the most, though, is the way that one decision can affect the rest of your life.
The rather flippant decision I made over fours years to study Computer Science at UNSW has literally changed the course of my life. If I had made a different decision, there are so many experiences I would not have had, so many people I would not know. And in their place, another set of experiences and people would have shaped who I am now.
Either God is totally in control of all of this, or this whole existence thing is just one big spastic randomness, in which I have ended up with a pretty darn good lot, and most of the world have not.
Speaking of which, I am late for Bible study. Time is a strange thing...
yay! martyn blogging! now i shall be able to keep myself updated on your life, my little poppet.
I knew it!!! Previously it was a joke, but I damn well knew it! You've been sleeping in parks! It is you who is the hobo Martyn, not I!! Bwhahahahaa, now THIS will be a story for the grandkids.
On a semi-related note, sometime you have to make a blog post entitled "Hey Gang" and then follow it up with "Have you ever wanted rock-hard abber-dabbers?"
That is all.
So that's why you were late to Bible study! Welcome to blogging: it's good to see you writing, and to read your wisdom.
It is a bit overwhelming to think how quickly time has passed. Congratulations on graduating! - My mum cut out your congratulatory graduation notice that was in the local paper and showed me. It's strange to think that we're all growing up and entering the real world, doing 'adult' things, when we still often don't feel very 'adult'. I often feel you should get handed a manuel at graduation with details of all the stuff you're meant to do as an adult and how to do it - take out health insurance, life insurance, organise superanuation, invest in something, buy a car, a house, organise a savings trust fund, etc, etc. All the kind of stuff that people just expect you to know about but don't tell you about!
Anyway, nice to hear from you again, Marty!
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