Life is too short to be deep all the time

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This is my new personal philosophy.

From this email exchange with a friend:

>> I was told last night that chasing boys with long dark
>> fringes and big noses makes me shallow. Or something like that.
>
> oh, yeah, that definately makes you shallow. but life is too short
> to be deep all the time, isn't it?

Do you agree, and if not, what is yours?

kate, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

haha that is totally mine, i had an argument w.dr vick abt it!! being deep = bad fr yr heart!!

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

not that i've evah tried it...

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i see that not paying attention is yr all round "thing" david, but i promise nevah to tease simon again in yr presence

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

my philospophy borders between:

why do today what you can do tomorrow, and life is the longest time time you'll ever know, so don't worry about it.

I'd like to adopt a bit more of a energetic approach to life.

jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

mark, I don't get your third post.

jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm, depends on definition of shallow and deep. problem can often be, you need to be 'fun' when you feel 'serious', and people can need you to be 'serious' when you're being 'fun'.

gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

If you switch between deep and shallow too quick you get the bends!

Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, that's where it went!! pls ignore i just reposted elsewhere

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's somewhere along the lines of "you can go as far as you want in any one direction, so long as you go equally as far in the opposite."

You don't have to be deep and serious all the time. Sometimes it's OK to be totally shallow and fun loving and silly. And I shouldn't feel bad about my need to be so/do so.

Intellectual bends... now that is an interesting idea. The closest I've ever experienced was coming out of an emotionally/intellectually intense experience ... ie, recording or touring or writing, ... and being totally unable to function on a normal level, and just going blank when confronted with ordinary activities like buying groceries or the like.

A bit like sensory deprivation and/or sensory overload can drive you insane.

kate, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

There's really no need to worry about this one too much. Too shallow and you evaporate by lunchtime, too deep and you disappear up your own arse by elevenses. Just like that wee bloke in the new "get yer twinkle out" advert.

If you're able to ask the question you've already struck the right balance, right?

Michael A. (Michael A.), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

life is not short

Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Life is the longest goddamn thing any of us will ever do, sonny boy!

OK, that aside. Life gets shorter every bloody day. When I was 15, life was fucking neverending. Now I find that weeks and even months have gone by and I'm still not entirely sure how or where. When this becomes years, I shall worry.

kate, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that life is too deep to be short all the time. 'cause you'll drown.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

life is long enough, we can spend that time being both shallow and deep!

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

my personal philosophy seems to change a lot and i do like the sound of this one so i may borrow it for a bit.

donna (donna), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"People say Chris, life is so short. So short. No no. Life is LONG. Especially when you make bad decisions." - c. rock

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think lust is deep, or as deep as any emotion.

anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, having desires doesn't make one shallow.

di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

nancy made me a mixtape with death cab for cutie and the pussies on it. she RoX0r. i guess i better go study for my english exam.
i've just been grooving to the latest rekkid by the magnetic fields. i miss you livvie, although we never talked. i've got to practice my keyboard skills before my gig tonight!!! i miss my kitty!

do not act fucking out on soap opera urges... rawwwkk.

dude i went to this the rachels show and all I got was this pink cardigan. today, while awake, i imagined myself given the respiratory system requiring blue paint as i was simultaneously being drowned in it. i wish on the first star i see everynite. i wish. so hard. but nothing ever comes of it. tomorrow i'm going to buy some hello kitty notepaper.

indykid (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

my philosophy is to have as much sex as possible rather than sitting on a computer all day talking abt it!

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

my philosophy is to have as much sex as possible while sitting at a computer all day talking abt it

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Lust is not necessarily shallow. But attraction to people based solely on physical attributes is quite shallow.

See, the hair I think it's OK to be attracted to someone for. Hair and shoes, because those are things that people CHOOSE, yet generally, they are the things that people spend the least effort on, hence they display their subconscious personality best.

But large noses? I think it's shallow for me to be attracted to men for large noses.

kate, Wednesday, 18 September 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)


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