I’m going to regret starting this blog now – already 20 minutes after my bedtime. Because, really, what don’t I not know? Or, in the singular, “there’s a lot I don’t know”. A lot. And it seems that, as life progresses and the wise teacher of experience, er, teaches, I should have more answers and fewer questions… Right?

But as far as I can tell, understanding life is like trying to follow a season of Heroes – the longer you’re involved, the more questions arise. And while some answers are supplied, yet more questions emerge as you go – so many, in fact, that more than half of them fall away because one person simply cannot handle that much uncertainty (unless they have super powers to compensate).

And so the plot continues – full of holes, but still intriguing as hell.

So, in the spirit of this being The Daley Rant, here’s a list of my own I-don’t-get-its – things that, perhaps, I should surely understand by now but still don’t…

• The 9-to-5
• What happens when email/text speak becomes the official written norm? Is our language evolving or deteriorating?
• Why it’s so scary to admit we all need each other
• The cold
• Why saying yes so easy in some ways, but so very difficult when it really counts. And, similarly, why commitment – to schedules, jobs, beliefs, goals, people – is so difficult
• Scrubs – there, I said it! I just don’t get it… (wow, I feel better now!)
• How disposible things seem sometimes
• The belief that the “media force-feeds us” (switch it off, walk away, get a life!)
• Why, so often, people don’t fight for what they want or believe in
• What happens next?
• Why so much of life’s really difficult emotional terrain is left to women to negotiate
• Fake-strawberry-flavoured milk
• Paper – why so much is used, stored and wasted. Stop sending me half a tree a week!
• Why some will spend loads on beauty products, clothes, shoes, hair etc and yet not look after their teeth, skin or health first. Forget the manicure and try flossing!
• How settling for something sub-par (or rubbish) could be better than not having it at all
• Purposefully baking in direct sunlight
• Music on the page – I’ve been looking at it for more than half my life, I’ve even had a hand in writing some, but I still don’t really get it. If there’s a music equivalent of illiteracy, I have it. Something about it doesn’t work with my brain…
• Shops that play nightclub music… on a Saturday freaking morning
• Why completely useless jobs can be obscenely well-paid, while really important ones get sweet FA
• How quickly some people can get over their misfortunes, or swiftly abandon what once seemed so precious to them
• Why the arts are given so little credit in our “society”, yet most people benefit from them in one form or other
• How I can understand guys perfectly well if they’re friends, but as soon as romance is involved, that level of understanding falls spectacularly to pieces!
• Rugby League
• Why we don’t believe in ourselves as a nation when we’re more talented than so many others who are more powerful than us!
• How having other people read what you write makes it seem more valid!
• Using apostrophes where they don’t belong (when in doubt, I’d much rather you leave it out – George Bernard Shaw wanted to eliminate them altogether!)
• Why being underweight would ever be revered
• Why many people are so resistant to, and ignorant of, digital media
• Doof-doof in hotted-up cars
• Whether the earth-shattering love as Austen, the Brontes and, hell, Shakespeare would have it, really exists
• And, speaking of which, how I managed to swing an English major without reading so very many of the classics
• Onions
• Why you’d ever really want to grow up