As expected, the festive break was spent eating, drinking, being merry, feeling uncomfortable around people you wouldn't usually socialise with at any other time of year and inevitably, not blogging. However, now the Christmas and New Year shenanigans are merely a fast fading memory of over-indulgence, it's time to write something new.
Whilst lazing in front of the TV between Christmas and New Year I found myself watching a back to back episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? - Oh yeah, i know how to live. I got to thinking how it would probably be quite interesting to do a similar thing with my family, finding out all the interesting scandals and intrigue that have made me the scandalous, intriguing, Who Do You Think You Are?-watching individual i am today.
Unfortunately, as quickly as the idea had come to me, it was scuppered. I remembered that relatives on both sides of my family had already looked into it, and in so much depth that everyone got bored of listening to both of them harping on about it. So, now there's no point in me doing it because whenever i would make an enquiry for some information from a relative they'd simply say: "oh your cousin did all that, best go talk to them". But i want to find out for myself!!
So, my conclusion is this. Anyone who decides to research their family tree is selfish. They are denying generations of their family the excitement of investigating it all for themselves. The bastards. As it is, for my family, i don't think i've missed much because i can't remember a single interesting thing being unearthed by my relatives who have already undertaken their own Who Do You Think You Are? 'journey' as they so ridiculously like to call it on that TV show.
I guess i could still do it myself and who knows, i might be much better than my relatives and find out much more interesting things, because they might have been shit at it. Selfish and shit.
Whilst lazing in front of the TV between Christmas and New Year I found myself watching a back to back episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? - Oh yeah, i know how to live. I got to thinking how it would probably be quite interesting to do a similar thing with my family, finding out all the interesting scandals and intrigue that have made me the scandalous, intriguing, Who Do You Think You Are?-watching individual i am today.
Unfortunately, as quickly as the idea had come to me, it was scuppered. I remembered that relatives on both sides of my family had already looked into it, and in so much depth that everyone got bored of listening to both of them harping on about it. So, now there's no point in me doing it because whenever i would make an enquiry for some information from a relative they'd simply say: "oh your cousin did all that, best go talk to them". But i want to find out for myself!!
So, my conclusion is this. Anyone who decides to research their family tree is selfish. They are denying generations of their family the excitement of investigating it all for themselves. The bastards. As it is, for my family, i don't think i've missed much because i can't remember a single interesting thing being unearthed by my relatives who have already undertaken their own Who Do You Think You Are? 'journey' as they so ridiculously like to call it on that TV show.
I guess i could still do it myself and who knows, i might be much better than my relatives and find out much more interesting things, because they might have been shit at it. Selfish and shit.
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