phillmatic (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} silent_spring) wrote,@ 2007-11-08 23:11:00 |
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| Current mood: |  sleepy |
| Current music: | 2Pac - So Many Tears |
When you're famous, you can move mountains in Laurel Canyon... always white and pure as snow
Daily Cog: For some reason, I was browsing through Rolling Stone magazine and saw a blurb about one of my favorite books, Invisible Man. Then as I was flipping pages, I was thinking about how I told Natalie that my reading narcolepsy started to surface when I was reading Neuromancer (it took both of us a month to read). And the next page I flipped... there was William Gibson, center of the page.
Daily Natalie: Sept. 29, 2004 -- keyboard love...
that's strange that someone would trigger thoughts of other people. but it is inevitable. i mean, i always figure that there is a limitation to how people look or act... everyone is just a compilation from a grab bag of various traits, thus we encounter the "same" people eventually.
Daily Subject: Summer Camp
Not going to lie, and this embarrasses me, but I've been watching Kid Nation. At first, I just wanted to see kids drink bleach and see what all the child abuse/labor law hoopla was about. But it's gotten to the point where I'm legitimately into it. And I wish I knew other people who were into it because then I could talk about it.
But... I never went to summer camp. In 6th and 12th grade, we had these weeklong camp retreats from school, which is basically camp except with better (ie. cold) weather. And, I really loved those trips because it really brought out the character of people. I'll admit, I wasn't the hardest working kid of the bunch, but manual labor wasn't my particular skill set. I served the community cerebrally and emotionally. Balancing scales theory. In order to spout off forward-thinking philosophy, I HAD to have sucked at washing dishes.
Mostly, people came to me when they sought depth, and they came to me the most during those trips... removed from all mod cons. I was wise beyond my years back then, so when I shared profound insights about the world and their lives, they connected on a personal level and really learned something valuable. On the flipside, I was never very comfortable being vulnerable, and I'm ashamed to say, sometimes after a night of deep conversation with someone, I might not have spoken to them at all for the next two days. However, the flipside to that (so I guess the original side), is that I was a really good person to come to for empathy, because I would express objectivity AND compassion (sadly, this is a skill set I have lost).
These days (18th grade?), I'm a lot shallower. And I like that. Balancing scales theory. In order to be happier, I HAD to have become more air-headed.
Daily Natalie: Sept. 29, 2004 -- keyboard love...
that's strange that someone would trigger thoughts of other people. but it is inevitable. i mean, i always figure that there is a limitation to how people look or act... everyone is just a compilation from a grab bag of various traits, thus we encounter the "same" people eventually.
Daily Subject: Summer Camp
Not going to lie, and this embarrasses me, but I've been watching Kid Nation. At first, I just wanted to see kids drink bleach and see what all the child abuse/labor law hoopla was about. But it's gotten to the point where I'm legitimately into it. And I wish I knew other people who were into it because then I could talk about it.
But... I never went to summer camp. In 6th and 12th grade, we had these weeklong camp retreats from school, which is basically camp except with better (ie. cold) weather. And, I really loved those trips because it really brought out the character of people. I'll admit, I wasn't the hardest working kid of the bunch, but manual labor wasn't my particular skill set. I served the community cerebrally and emotionally. Balancing scales theory. In order to spout off forward-thinking philosophy, I HAD to have sucked at washing dishes.
Mostly, people came to me when they sought depth, and they came to me the most during those trips... removed from all mod cons. I was wise beyond my years back then, so when I shared profound insights about the world and their lives, they connected on a personal level and really learned something valuable. On the flipside, I was never very comfortable being vulnerable, and I'm ashamed to say, sometimes after a night of deep conversation with someone, I might not have spoken to them at all for the next two days. However, the flipside to that (so I guess the original side), is that I was a really good person to come to for empathy, because I would express objectivity AND compassion (sadly, this is a skill set I have lost).
These days (18th grade?), I'm a lot shallower. And I like that. Balancing scales theory. In order to be happier, I HAD to have become more air-headed.
