Do we all become hypocrites eventually?

Hello again!

So I will be turning 30 this year. I guess you could say that is kind of a milestone of some sort. I must say, if 5 years ago someone had asked me where I would see myself in 5 years, I would have never said: "I see myself living in Sweden, working in the gaming industry and with two kids before my 30th birthday." I guess if I had been able to say that I should have used my future-telling skills to look up the lottery numbers or something, but then again, I probably wouldn't have ended where I am right now, and that would have been a shame. I would have had to drown my sorrows about the life that could have been with expensive liquor and wipe my tears with 100 dollar bills. Anyways...

Getting "older" got me to thinking (isn't this how Carry Bradshaw used to start all her columns? OMG, am I turning into a character from Sex and the City!!!??). Do we all turn more and more into hypocrites the older we get?

For example, the other day I was walking home from the subway and walking towards me was a teenager holding his cellphone in his hand and using it as a tiny ghetto blaster, playing some stupid song. For some reason it got me really agitated. I was thinking to myself: "Dude! No one wants to hear your shitty music, coming from your shitty cellphone with shitty speakers! Doing this does not make you cooler! Everyone has cellphones and smart nerds have invented these cool little things you put in your ears, so you can enjoy your music by yourself and not bother every one with it!"

Now you may ask: "How does that make you a hypocrite, I think people that do that are super annoying also!" Well, the things is, I am pretty sure I used to do things that were pretty annoying to "older" folks back when I was a teenager. I mean I didn't have a cellphone that I could play music with back then, but I recall many occasions of drunk bus or train rides that were super fun for us, but probably not so much for the other passengers. I am sure most of you were also annoying as teenagers, at least sometimes. Does that mean I am a hypocrite? Or that we all are? Am I not allowed to get irritated by obnoxious teens without having to buy this mug?

I actually did make an effort to calm down after the music phone incident and try to look at it from a more grown up perspective. I said to myself: "I was also a teen once. I did stupid stuff. That is just how teenagers are." But even after that I was still wishing I had gone up to that teen, grabbed his stupid phone and smashed it on the ground. It's kinda crazy. I wasn't even having a bad day or anything. I just think its stupid to use your phone as a tiny makeshift ghetto blaster! 

Then I thought, if I get so irritated with this stupid stuff some random teen was doing, how will I react when my own kids become teenagers and start doing stupid stuff? But then I remind myself, my kids will be angels and not be some rebellious teens. They will do as they are told and never cause us any grief.

Yeah right. 

Olive threw a giant fit because Sarah didn't lift her onto the computer chair today! That computer chair will soon be replaced with not letting her get married at 16 to some guy she fell in love with at first sight at her friends party.

Olive is 13 months now. Is it too early to start worrying about these kinda things? What do you think? Let me know in the comments section.

Until next time!