Decision

I have today decided that I am taking a stand about people telling me how I should live my life.  I feel as an adult I can make decisons for myself thank you very much.

I feel it is not necessary for the government to tell me I am a binge drinker and therefore  take away my "buy one get one free" option at the supermarket on a Friday night.  I am 37 years old.  I know I am a binge drinker.  I am good at being a binge drinker and I want to binge drink for as cheap as possible.  Charging 45p a unit to alleviate binge drinking is harsh and makes me annoyed, but it wont make me stop.  

What specifically annoys me is that these decision have been taken out of my hands and I have no choice but to accept them.

If you want to smoke, smoke. I don't , but if you want to char your lungs to dried up prunes, so that you can no longer breath to full capacity, do it.   Do the goverment have to pass a law to make it illegal for shops to place them on a shelf in full view of everyone?   Just because you can no longer see them are you going to stop buying them?  Maybe it will deflect children from picking up the awful habit but do we have to alter our own adult lives to ensure that no child in the UK smokes again? 

I love food and I eat too much of it.  In twenty years time I dont want to be told the NHS will no longer treat me because I tried eating myself to death.  I am aware that being overweight is dangerous.  I am aware that eating a Macdonalds daily will make me the size of a house but I can still do it if I want.  I know that if my children sit and play computer games whilst eating pizza all day, every day they are probably going to be too obese to move and have to be airlifted from my home via a crane.    I know this.  I can still allow them to eat pizza and play computers if I want.  I appreciate not everyone has the capacity to make these decisions.     But, bloody hell ,do we have to take everything good away in favour of the small minority who don't.

I want to see my sons run competitive races in the school sports day.  Proper laugh themselves into a frenzy as their feet collapse through the well worn sack as they jump, breathless to the end.  I want to see them bite their tongue with concentration as they try and cross the line gripping their spoon with a REAL egg balanced on the end.  Not, as we currently do, throw a sponge imitation javelin that falls 2 inches from their feet, fifteen times, yawning all the while. 

I want them to play conkers.  I want them to use a corkscrew to pierce a hole in it and then thread an old school shoe lace through and then whack their knuckles whilst they launch their conker wildly at their opponent.  I want them to play cricket with a ball that doesn't resemble a washing up sponge.  Being a child is all about the rough and tumble, the fun and laughter.  The government will slowly take this all away until our children are frightened to do anything that resembles exercise.

I want to revert back to the good old days where common sense was allowed to take precedent over health and safety.  I want old people to be able to have gardens in their sheltered schemes without some "do gooder" telling them to remove it incase one of the planters falls on their heads.  I want our emergency services to be able to rescue someone in an emergency before having to carry out a full risk assessment potentially allowing someone to die. 

Mainly this situation makes me laugh because it's so ridiculous

 
But, seriously, who decided we could no longer be responsible enough to make our own decisions?

 I am not good at being told what to do.  I am less good at being forced into doing something I dont want to do.  I want it all to stop, today please.

I am going to take a stand.  However, I haven't yet made a decision on how I am going to do this......