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)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)
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)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)
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)
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)
― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)
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)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― donna (donna), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)
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)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)
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)