Un//Certainty
Hey there. Oh sorry, you don’t remember me? Hi, I’m George Creasy and this is my blog which I used to post to loads (daily for over a year in fact!), but then I became a proper adult and stuff and stopped writing as often. But I like to drop in every now and then to update both of my followers on my life (hi mum).
And guess what? I’ve completely arbitrarily decided that I’m going to blog every day this week! (I have the week of work and need to not completely waste it. Hashtag twenty twenty).
So get ready for 500 days of rambling right here on George vs Life. You know, I started this blog over 10 years ago, and I’m still genuinely proud of that name. In fact, let’s get nostalgic for a second.
That was my first ever blog. It looks a bit different because it’s hosted on Tumblr, back before Medium was even a thing!
But yeah, it’s now 10 years later and you know what? Life still feels like it’s going past really quickly, and it is nice to just grab a beer, put on some old music and write about it for a little while.
I guess I’m even more nostalgic because I’ve been living in my childhood bedroom back at my parents house in Norwich for like 9 months now due to this whole global pandemic, with the only real activity of walking about my neighbourhood where I grew up whilst listening to podcasts. Honestly, I listen to a LOT of podcasts, I’m talking like 10–20 hours a week. And the other thing is that I’ve kind of tricked myself into only being able to listen to them when I’m on the move, which currently means when I’m walking (remember when we used to go on buses/trains and planes all the time?).
So anyway, why have I titled this blog Un//Certainty ? Because when I think back over those last 10 years, they’re made up of these 1–3 year segments and the reality is, at each segment, I always look back and think “wow, I never thought I would’ve ended up here 2 years ago”.
For example. Here I am back at home for a year, this time a year ago I never would’ve seen this coming, just like 3 years ago I never would’ve thought I’d spend 2 years in Detroit, just like 4 years ago I never would’ve thought I’d work in the automotive industry?! Just like 5 years ago I never would’ve thought I’d run in a student politics election and win and get a job at the student’s union for a year, just like 9 years ago I never would’ve thought I’d end up going to Warwick University. Do you see the pattern here?
In life, the only thing you can be certain of is uncertainty.
And that’s a good thing! How fucking scary would it be to finish school at 18 and get told how the next 40 years of your life are going to play out. That would suck! Life is literally all about the journey, and it’s going to throw you about a bit; geographically, romantically, emotionally. But this is the stuff which makes for a good blog, right?
So yeah, do I know where I’m going to be in 2 years time? Literally not at all. It could literally be anywhere in the world (Norwich/London/Detroit/Chicago/California/Melbourne). And that shit is really scary!
But having done this over and over for literally a decade now, I’ve kind of learned to embrace the uncertainty.
