Monday "Fun"day

Song of the Day - "Walking Contradiction" Green Day



Do as I say not as I do because
The shit's so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart ass but I'm playing dumb

Standards set and broken all the time
Control the chaos behind a gun
Call it as I see it even if
I was born deaf, blind and dumb
Losers winning big on the lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I'm a victim of a catch 22

I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right

Do as I say not as I do because
The shit's so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart ass but I'm playing dumb

I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right
--

While I'm not sure what the video of these gents inadvertently destroying everything in their wake has to do with being a walking contradiction (it's a soft parallel at best, IMHO), I think the title and first line of the song definitely speak to all of us. How many times have we bitched and whined about someone doing/saying something when we do the exact same thing? The answer is all of the time. Some are more cognizant of this than others and try to minimize such occasions, but the reality is that we're all guilty at some point.

Ties a little bit to a discussion I got into with Stef last night. Every time we chat, we get deep and it inevitably circles back to the relationship discussion and analyzing the interactions between male and female and why we invariably piss each other off. At a high level (without getting too deep), I think there is a definite parallel between this song and the source of the issue--saying we want one thing and acting as though another. "Self-medicating" is another more PC way to say this. We say we want a nice/reliable/down to earth person who has significant other potential, but we go chase people who are vacuous, distant or otherwise unavailable. This is a whole different posting that I'll drill into at another time, but the end result was there is a friend of a friend who is, apparently, fed up with this destructive pattern. Hmm...interesting...