New '10 Decade Ho-pes and Ass-pirations

Well here it is, we have officially started a new decade in the 2010s. The weirdness of the 2000s is now finally left behind us, which can give us a chance to start anew.

But who am I kidding, are we really going to start things from scratch?

Of course not.

Many projects we have already started in the 2000s were actual preparations for what is supposed to be established in the 2010s, such as environmental, technological or political projects. I am not quite familiar with all of them, but I won't be really talking about those because I know that in that regards we will just be following the same trends that we have been following all this time since post-war 20th century.

I don't really care about 2011, I care more about the decade as a whole. There is more to happen in a decade than in a year, and even though every year the same shitty things happen, the decade involves something more epic and significant in our lives as a whole than just a year which rather affects individual people and countries as entities.

So, I mean, what can I say? It's the '10s. The 2000s were really really... REALLY fucked up for me, and I am sooo glad they're over with. They were full of personal bullshit and professional success. That's a bad combo. I don't really see how good things happened to me personally, the only good things that concerned me were for music and school. Apart from that what can I say? I had my first sexual and romantic relations, I wasted my teens on some stupid French bitch for 2.5 years, I also wasted my whole teens living in a dirty rotten third-world dead city (that's Paris for you noobs out there) with nothing to do. A complete waste of life. Not even time; LIFE I TELL YA!

I am so mad, so angry, so frustrated about all this bullshit. THANK GOD I live in Canada now, I started a new life here, but this was reinforced last August when I FINALLY moved back to Istanbul for good. I can't believe I spent ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS in Paris, whereas I had lived seven years before that as a child in Istanbul. I missed out on so much, left so many people behind in Turkey. I ain't leaving anyone in France because there is literally ZERO people between 1999 and 2010 that were significant in France. I am leaving them behind forever, everybody I met in France was only a fad, temporary and ephemeral. I am catching up on the people I left in Turkey 11 years ago only now, but if you made a count of the people I am leaving behind in France, it really amounts to zero. And yes that includes my family. I deleted pretty much everyone I knew from France, from my middle school, the girls I met online, the people I met at parties that I only saw once, the people I thought I would be seeing again and having good times with, the people who I know I will never get along after... everyone.

I don't want to keep contact with anybody, there is NOTHING I can actually take from France with me into this new decade, and I am so fucking happy. Fuck France to the bone, Fuck Paris, Fuck French people, Fuck EVERYTHING about it (except the food). I am fucking DONE, and that's why I can strongly and optimistically affirm that I can start anew this new decade, and I feel like this new decade can't generally be worse than the previous one.

Sure, I will meet new bitches who might ruin my life again, but at least it won't be the first time, I will have people with whom I will be able to forget about it, and I'll be in a city where I can go out and forget about it if I have nobody to be with!

Also, I am looking forward to the new decade with enthusiasm as it will mean great new projects for me at school and in life. I have some music to record and write, I have jobs to get, I have new girls to fuck, new cars to ride, new food to eat, new music to listen to! Yeah I know, I finally sound like a stereotypical douchy guy, but that's because all the bullshit I lived in France made me not care anymore, and I realize it's not worth living your life in loathing and isolation, but rather in indifference and opportunism. Adolescence is fucked! And it all had to happen in one giant slap over 11 years. I am so glad I am an indifferent person now, I can laugh in the face of trouble, I can finally realize nothing isn't as bad/as good as everyone claims it is. I don't take offence to insults and bad words anymore, and if someone is a dick to me I really don't care at all since I LIVED IN FRANCE. France was like my Viet Nam. Nothing can top it. I remember before I used to hate Turkey, but now I am so glad I'm back, and even though I find the same flaws in Istanbul as in the 90s, I don't care anymore after all the bullshit I had to put up with in Paris. Turkey is beautiful by comparison. I believe France was my downfall, my rock-bottom, the worst thing that could happen to me. Let's see if I can hit rock bottom again in life, but let's not hope for it to be this decade.

I would like now to appeal to a more general audience and quickly list some things that come along with this new decade. Let's start off with the neutral things about this decade:

-Only 100 years ago, in 4 years, WWI had started

-I am born in 1988, this is the equivalent of being born in 1888 and moving into the 1910s, the dawn of a new century.

-We cannot speak of the 80s anymore as "20 years ago"; it's now 30 years ago! Our sense of time is mentally still stuck in the 2000s/90s, so it's easy to say 20 years ago when we actually mean 30 years ago speaking of the 80s. The 70s used to be "30 years ago". Now, "20 years ago" relates to 1991! Feeling old yet gramps?

-Kids born in the 90s are now finally starting to dissolve within our young-adult public. Like I said if you're born in 1991 you'd be 20 this year now, so you welcome to the world of "When I was your age". I know I've been using that phrase for a while now.

-I still have memories from 20 years ago, and yet I feel like they happened only recently. I think this is what it means not to see time fly.

-10 years. 10 years. 10 years. Got that in your mind now? Does that seem like a big number? Well guess what, 10 years ago was ONLY 2001!! Today, 10 years ago, the World Trade Center was still there and America was less annoying to travel to. Only 10 years ago. Fun Fact: during the terrorist attacks of 9/11 I had come back home and I watched The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy (not actually WITH him, but he was in the movie, and it was in French). Another Fun Fact: I only knew about the World Trade Center by playing Sim City 3000, I never actually knew where it was or what it was.

-Ok let's see if I can fit another one in here; look at the number 2000. Remember the novelty of the year? Yeah. Nostalgic huh.

Alright now let's follow up with the bad things that are to come:

-So the 2000s saw the rise of way too many terrible and useless faddy artists. Many of them were part of the early 2000s culture, while the others, who are still out and about today, are more representative of the late 2000s culture. Many new artists are to come up, and boy are they getting crappier by the dozen. I can't imagine what god-awfulness the 10s are going to bring us, and since we're moving towards a neo-retro cultural twist, we're going to see a lot of artists with exuberant displays like in the 80s, and with new technologies who knows, it might be customary to see a singer with a dress made entirely of sugar cubes or chocolate that doesn't melt.

-I won't say much about politicians but I will say this; it won't change much. History has shown that times change yet remain the same. All I'm afraid of is that we get new presidents in the US that can only bring the US in two different ways: more patriotism and bullshit like it was the case throughout the 2000s with George W. Bush, or something more liberal and more open to the new century and world matters like.... uh... maybe Kennedy? Anyway. US politics are still unpredictable, let's just hope we don't waste our lives with another Bush-alike.

-Speaking of politics, maybe our perspective on terrorism is going to switch and we will be having a brand new organisation to deal with. I am hoping for an attack on Paris.

-We will be having more natural disasters and other types of shitty catastrophes like oil spills. The 2000s records to have had the MOST oil spills ever, it's amazing! We had one just at the beginning of 2000 in France! Thanks for the inauguration assholes!

-Remember that once one country will be hit with, say, a hurricane, we will forget about as soon as another country will be hit with something else like, say, an earthquake. If I'm predicting this now, it's cos I'm good. I told you so.

This is a rather vague and non-exhaustive citation, but I'm sure you can fill in the rest, and maybe agree with some points in here. I can't really list the positive things because as you know I'm a pessimist and I have no faith in humanity. The positive things to me happen personally on small scales, in everyday form. The positive things will be up to YOU.

Thanks for reading, I'm hoping to have brought down your expectations to a more realistic level and if you're depressed remember; you can't get any worse!

GOOD NIGHT FUCKERS!!

Teoman