The Writers

So a while back I asked Andrea to write a post for me and my friends got offended that they weren't ask. Ok, they weren't offended but you know.

The idea here is to take turns to write one post a week and if we feel the urge, to post more, but hopefully at least one a week.

There isn't a plan on what we'll write. There's no particular topic of posts and conversation that we're all going to write about. I guess if there had to be a plan it would be to write what we want and generate some dialogue. I'm not going to lie, I have no idea how this is going to turn out. Hopefully it'll be fun, serious and a little bit distracting for everyone, readers and writers alike.

Each of the writers are vastly different. We have vastly different personalities, different levels of enthusiasms, different opinions and different styles of writing. But its not like, I chose these three, just randomly. They've all been reading my blog, telling me when they don't agree and when they do. They've all been there to lend advice, an ear or an opinion for me when its been required.

Josh: 

Differences: Not even from Melbourne, calls dinner tea

Became friends like normal people would

I've known Josh the longest. We have had the most conventional of friendship. We've been to all the parties, all the birthdays, all the day trips, the classes and been through stupid drama together. In the whole time I've known him, Josh is the neutral one of any group (or circle); the one listening to all the opinions before gently extracting an opinion out of it. He has tempered some of my more unconventional opinions more than once. Charimatic and disgustingly popular, Josh with all his 'diplomatic' skills and his pacifist stance on the world, makes him the most useful person to think your thought process through with. If anyone makes Josh take a stance on a topic, then you're doing well very (very) well

Andrea:

Differences: doesn't follow world politics (extensively)

Became friends via snap chat (because we're cool kids, My snapchat score would be about half of what it would be if it wasn't for Andrea.)

Andrea and I were placed in the same group for one of our engineering assignments. Over the past few years, Andrea has been the one most likely to challenge my opinions on stuff. Its easy to make friends with people who agrees with you, but so much harder to make friends with someone who is willing to post a challenge.  Without a doubt, Andrea and I have the most polarising opinion. I don't know if its fair to say, but Andrea is more likely than me to adopt the more popular and conventional opinion. But unlike most, Andrea can justify the 'popular' opinion (her opinion) without using the wonderfully useful argument ending line of  "everyone else agrees with me."

Steph:

Differences: doesn't go to Melbourne University

Became friends from that one night

If Josh and I have a conventional friendship, then Steph and I have the opposite. We skipped that stage where you make small talk for months and months and just became friends. Steph and I relish the chance to be proven right and go against popular opinion. In many ways, we're the cynical representing all the dark opinions that normal people would not normally voice out loud. For the most part, we agree on a lot of things and leave a lot of things unsaid, because  lets be honest, small talk isn't the most enjoyable thing in the world. For the most part, we have a good grasp on each other's opinion on topical conversation so we don't argue a lot. We're judgmental of everyone and everything which inevitably means that we're the harshest critic of ourselves. Because we're both stubborn people, too often we just agree to disagree.

At the end of the day, we're not afraid to disagree. Recently former US. President Clinton said, "We are less racist, sexist, and homophobic than we've ever been, but we do have one continuing problem:we don't want to be around anyone who disagrees with us. More than ever before."

Lets see how Sweet Sour Disposition will turn out.

~TastyJacks~