{"id":2739,"date":"2020-11-17T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/you-can-speak-your-mind-but-not-on-my-time\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:46:12","slug":"you-can-speak-your-mind-but-not-on-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/you-can-speak-your-mind-but-not-on-my-time\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU CAN SPEAK YOUR MIND BUT NOT ON MY TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care about lots of things that other people seem to care a ridiculous amount about. Princess Diana, for example. Don&#8217;t care. The 4th season of <i>The Crown<\/i> was just released and suddenly my social media is full of her again. Don&#8217;t care about royal families in general, for the most part, and the current one in the UK has less interest for me than most. I don&#8217;t care what they&#8217;re doing, who they&#8217;re marrying, where they&#8217;re vacationing, and whether or not they&#8217;re happy in their roles. I watched the first three seasons out of curiosity and thought they were full of fantastic actors playing rather boring people with incomprehensible accents. I watched the first episode of the new season but not sure I can be bothered to watch the rest since I really don&#8217;t care about &#8220;the Diana years&#8221; and that&#8217;s the whole focus. Been there, was already alive for that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care about any of the Kardashians. I&#8217;ve never seen a snippet of any of their shows. Do they have more than one? Never mind, I don&#8217;t care. Same for Kanye or any of the Real Housewives. Don&#8217;t care. I don&#8217;t care about reality TV in general and in general, deplore the degradation of everything (including politics) into reality-TV-competition bullshit. Why does everything have to be made more exciting by turning it all into a chopping block conveyor belt? In fact, I don&#8217;t care much about television in general, though in the past couple of years I&#8217;ve watched more of it than I ever have, and found some really great shows to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Best sellers? Most of the time, don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m convinced that my own taste in reading is better than the common denominator of the vast majority, and I keep getting proven right when I see what ends up on those lists. Snobby much? You bet&#8217;cha. Of course, they&#8217;re not ALL bad. Sometimes books I think are really great get the exposure and hype they deserve. Just generally speaking. The same goes for movies, but not as often, for some reason. Maybe because I don&#8217;t see as many movies as I read books?<\/p>\n<p>What else? I don&#8217;t care about the memories people share on Facebook. We saw it once, that was enough. Don&#8217;t care about Twitter or Tiktok or whatever the cool new app\/thing is. I don&#8217;t care about memes. And not because I don&#8217;t get them. I just don&#8217;t care about them. I don&#8217;t care about sports, especially college sports. I understand WHY people care about them, but honestly, sometimes they just seem like one more way to divide us. Another competition. The same goes for religion.<\/p>\n<p>And on top of all that? Most of the time, I don&#8217;t care what people think of me, especially strangers. I care what my family thinks, what my friends think, what my manager and colleagues think. But I don&#8217;t care if someone thinks I&#8217;m weird, or loud, or too whatever. I&#8217;m self-confident enough not to worry about it. There&#8217;s so much out there that we&#8217;re told, from childhood on up, that we should care about, make concessions for, pay attention to, do or don&#8217;t do. Not caring is very freeing. You should find the things that you find worthwhile of care and care about them. Don&#8217;t let others dictate what you should care about. That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care about lots of things that other people seem to care a ridiculous amount about. Princess Diana, for example. Don&#8217;t care. The 4th season of The Crown was just released and suddenly my social media is full of her again. Don&#8217;t care about royal families in general, for the most part, and the current one in the UK has less interest for me than most. I don&#8217;t care what they&#8217;re doing, who they&#8217;re marrying, where they&#8217;re vacationing, and whether or not they&#8217;re happy in their roles. I watched the first three seasons out of curiosity and thought they&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8,20],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek","tag-blogalicious","tag-littlemisssunshine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8016,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/8016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}