The Grouch
The Grouch The song starts with the opening lyrics “I was a young boy that had big plans, and now I’m just a shitty old man...”. It was one of my favourite songs from Greenday’s seminal classic album Nimrod. Decades later when I revisited it did I now became the old man in the song. Little did I know when I first heard this song that I’d be the grouch . And you know what? I don’t mind it anymore. Time has thought me that we are perpetually changing and that what we were once doesn’t reflect the person that we become. Experiences, time, knowledge helps to change and mould us to who we are and who we want to be. We choose what we want to see, hear and know and we choose who we want to be in our eyes and what the world sees us to be. It is a choice and not amount of genetics or media can directly change us but it is us that defines who we want to be. 40 decades later I feel that in some sense I am the grouch and yet I am more than that. I feel that I am at the best place I have b...
