I dislike intensely shopping at the best of times, unless it's entirely pointless. Shopping when you actually have to buy something is horrid. And I am incredibly impatient
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... well, since about the day I was born, or whatever, but, more recently I've spent time thinking about two things you wrote here (actually, maybe more, but for now I'm only gonna think about two!). Well, and only one of them since reading, the other has been a theme of thought for years!
I'll start with "got to try on lots of pretty dresses". I've been wondering if I think dresses are inherently pretty just hanging around in a shop, or on a plastic woman shaped thing? I wondered if perhaps their, umm, prettiness isn't like a constant property of a dress. Like a subjective thing, not so much about personal opinion, but about how a specific dress looks on a specific person. Like, if I wore a so-called pretty dress, I'm thinking that it probably wouldn't make me pretty, or even appear pretty at all... it'd just make me look like a heap. The dress too, would probably look like a heap. However, maybe somebody else (perhaps of the opposite sex to me!) might wear the same dress and it might just work, hence the person lets the dress looks pretty. Or something. To be honest, I didn't get carried away in thought, because I realised I'd eventually come back to thinking something like "Maybe dresses are a bit like art, they have some intrinsic level of prettiness even when people don't wear 'em" and then I might start wondering who would wear the Mona Lisa to a ball...
I believe that last paragraph *was* spam!
Now, something I've thought about for years, is "I don't want to grow up". And for the most part I think I succeed pretty well in not feeling any pressure to alter my life to conform with parts of growing up that I don't want to conform with. Like, no artificial growing up just because adults are "supposed" to be certain ways. Everyone finds their own way though :)
Spam all you want! :)oodleplexDecember 17 2002, 10:19:59 UTC
Dresses - all beauty is subjective, but if I think a dress is pretty then it will be a pretty dress no matter who is wearing it (I am sure you would have looked lovely in some of the ones we saw yesterday!). I actually tend to think that the dress does or does not do someone a favour, rather than think that the person does or does not increase the appeal of the dress. Probably the wrong way round, especially as I know there are certain clothes that I wear that on a hanger wouldnt look especially appealing, but suit me, and so look better on, or rather, make me look good (well...). And I wouldnt wear the Mona Lisa but get me a print of Starry Night and we have a ball dress that I would wear!
Growing up - I dont intend to. I dont think I could anyway. :)
... well, since about the day I was born, or whatever, but, more recently I've spent time thinking about two things you wrote here (actually, maybe more, but for now I'm only gonna think about two!). Well, and only one of them since reading, the other has been a theme of thought for years!
I'll start with "got to try on lots of pretty dresses". I've been wondering if I think dresses are inherently pretty just hanging around in a shop, or on a plastic woman shaped thing? I wondered if perhaps their, umm, prettiness isn't like a constant property of a dress. Like a subjective thing, not so much about personal opinion, but about how a specific dress looks on a specific person. Like, if I wore a so-called pretty dress, I'm thinking that it probably wouldn't make me pretty, or even appear pretty at all... it'd just make me look like a heap. The dress too, would probably look like a heap. However, maybe somebody else (perhaps of the opposite sex to me!) might wear the same dress and it might just work, hence the person lets the dress looks pretty. Or something. To be honest, I didn't get carried away in thought, because I realised I'd eventually come back to thinking something like "Maybe dresses are a bit like art, they have some intrinsic level of prettiness even when people don't wear 'em" and then I might start wondering who would wear the Mona Lisa to a ball...
I believe that last paragraph *was* spam!
Now, something I've thought about for years, is "I don't want to grow up". And for the most part I think I succeed pretty well in not feeling any pressure to alter my life to conform with parts of growing up that I don't want to conform with. Like, no artificial growing up just because adults are "supposed" to be certain ways. Everyone finds their own way though :)
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Growing up - I dont intend to. I dont think I could anyway. :)
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