Thursday, March 25, 2004
summer's here. time to bring out the chicane CDs.
you can tell cuz you need to peel your ass off your leatherette chair before taking a bath for the third time before sunset (and you know it won't be the last).
but summer brings about a certain giddiness, which i think is unique, because everyone gets excited in the summer for different reasons, but ultimately, we're all lackadaisically happy.
pre-adolescent kids get excited because it's time to bike and play XBox the whole day, and nights of sleeping really late.
adolescent to college kids will leave for whatever beach jaunts their budgets can take them. it's nights of libidos running free (well, mostly free), trying out new things (aaiiiight!!!), and just basically exemplifying the adage 'you only live once.'
twenty- and thirtysomethings (please, can we not use the term yuppies... ugh) look forward to the lighter rush hours and the chance to shun college kids at the beach (it's funny- it just goes like this on and on, year after year...)
and for those older than that, you must either be enjoying the company of your young relatives to wherever you're taking them, or looking forward to that trip to Europe before summer's over.
in a subtle, sneakily evil way, summer to me is a bit like christmas, or the new year. because i know that a lot of people are either lazing around, what with school being done, or taking their leaves (so that you can go out with the kids), so i think it's a chance for people to keep abreast (wooh! janet jackson references!) of what's happening with everyone else, and not in the harried need-to-go-there're-still-people-on-my-list way, but of really conversing, like meeting up on a weeknight (and you can afford to take leave the next day) and just... catching up (which happens to be a term between me and someone i had a thing with once- more on that later.)
when summer's over, it's just like that train station scene in "Fisher King" where Robin Williams imagines he and Amanda Plummer are waltzing with everyone else, and then it just melts (the perfect word) back into reality. We sometimes just find a lot of things to pine for as soon as summer ends, but maybe by finding time to see and meet up with others, finding out how things are doing, and seeing how much we've changed, then i think that maybe we can end summer not just with better tans and random hedonistic experiences (both of which peel off with time), but with a bit of having looked back and pulled the past forward to the present, in the hopes that the people you've shared them with will still be those we share our joys, sorrows, and triumphs with in the future.
speaking of having had things once... or more
i was in a messaging conversation with an old friend who i happened to go for, and this person ended one of the exchanges with, 'hey, let's meet up sometime, if it's okay with *insert current significant other's name*'
i mean, what is it with people and current significant others? the reason i ask is because i have heard that line from the only other person whom i tried to go for (just for the record, my significant other is actually the only person among the these people who didn't turn me down. hmmm...) and it makes me wonder if it's supposed to say something about me, or my significant other, or is it about the experiences these other peeps have had? what is especially perplexing to me is that it seems they haven't considered that nothing happened, anyway. the fact that they turned me down says enough about the way we all look at each other, especially now, years after the fact. and isn't it supposed to be okay with my significant other? (for the record, again, it is. i don't see why not, like i said.) i do hope to get in touch with these people again soon. i think there'd be a lot of 'catching up' to do.
it is summer, after all.
by the way,
don't i use 'but' a lot? i wonder why...
you can tell cuz you need to peel your ass off your leatherette chair before taking a bath for the third time before sunset (and you know it won't be the last).
but summer brings about a certain giddiness, which i think is unique, because everyone gets excited in the summer for different reasons, but ultimately, we're all lackadaisically happy.
pre-adolescent kids get excited because it's time to bike and play XBox the whole day, and nights of sleeping really late.
adolescent to college kids will leave for whatever beach jaunts their budgets can take them. it's nights of libidos running free (well, mostly free), trying out new things (aaiiiight!!!), and just basically exemplifying the adage 'you only live once.'
twenty- and thirtysomethings (please, can we not use the term yuppies... ugh) look forward to the lighter rush hours and the chance to shun college kids at the beach (it's funny- it just goes like this on and on, year after year...)
and for those older than that, you must either be enjoying the company of your young relatives to wherever you're taking them, or looking forward to that trip to Europe before summer's over.
in a subtle, sneakily evil way, summer to me is a bit like christmas, or the new year. because i know that a lot of people are either lazing around, what with school being done, or taking their leaves (so that you can go out with the kids), so i think it's a chance for people to keep abreast (wooh! janet jackson references!) of what's happening with everyone else, and not in the harried need-to-go-there're-still-people-on-my-list way, but of really conversing, like meeting up on a weeknight (and you can afford to take leave the next day) and just... catching up (which happens to be a term between me and someone i had a thing with once- more on that later.)
when summer's over, it's just like that train station scene in "Fisher King" where Robin Williams imagines he and Amanda Plummer are waltzing with everyone else, and then it just melts (the perfect word) back into reality. We sometimes just find a lot of things to pine for as soon as summer ends, but maybe by finding time to see and meet up with others, finding out how things are doing, and seeing how much we've changed, then i think that maybe we can end summer not just with better tans and random hedonistic experiences (both of which peel off with time), but with a bit of having looked back and pulled the past forward to the present, in the hopes that the people you've shared them with will still be those we share our joys, sorrows, and triumphs with in the future.
speaking of having had things once... or more
i was in a messaging conversation with an old friend who i happened to go for, and this person ended one of the exchanges with, 'hey, let's meet up sometime, if it's okay with *insert current significant other's name*'
i mean, what is it with people and current significant others? the reason i ask is because i have heard that line from the only other person whom i tried to go for (just for the record, my significant other is actually the only person among the these people who didn't turn me down. hmmm...) and it makes me wonder if it's supposed to say something about me, or my significant other, or is it about the experiences these other peeps have had? what is especially perplexing to me is that it seems they haven't considered that nothing happened, anyway. the fact that they turned me down says enough about the way we all look at each other, especially now, years after the fact. and isn't it supposed to be okay with my significant other? (for the record, again, it is. i don't see why not, like i said.) i do hope to get in touch with these people again soon. i think there'd be a lot of 'catching up' to do.
it is summer, after all.
by the way,
don't i use 'but' a lot? i wonder why...
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