do you ever wish you could just be a surface-skimmer?

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someone who doesnt even get touched by anything 'big' or whatever.
happy to plod along in life, happy with what comes your way.
content with life, no ambitions or worries about anything further away than your own nose.
is mindless acceptance an easier path?
or does it all catch up on everyone eventually?

― donna (donna), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

am i making life more difficult for myself by even thinking about this sort of thing?
should i feel bad about even asking?

― donna (donna), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

ah fuck it.

― donna (donna), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i think that i'm much more of a "surface-skimmer" than i'd like to think that i am. whether or not that's so, it doesn't seem that unattractive a life to lead -- i mean, some people just don't care about thorny political/philosophical/aesthetic/whatever matters. why begrudge them? though it seems a very phil collins a la "take me home" kinda life, doesn't it?

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Seems pretty good until you think of ppl you know who are, and how much they deserve a savage beating most of the time

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Again Dave Q is OTM (says the king of surface-skimmers).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, im sorry for the question.it is a silly one but it came about following a conversation with the neighbour, who said he doesnt care about the war or anything that happens further away than our street. he told me that if we all thought the same and just 'got on with it', there wouldnt be so much crap in the world.
i dont think it is possible for anyone to live that way really, without being affected by the rest of the world somehow.

― donna (donna), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Sort of a mirror image of somebody I know who is a pathetic leech who lives at home at 35, hasn't had a job ever, is known for fucking ppl over (the few ppl he knows, who mainly tolerate him as light comic relief/charity) and general dishonesty, has no hobbies whatever but watching TV, yet makes sweeping pronouncements like 'Man if they ran the US elections MY way me wouldn't be in this mess'[btw he's not American] Some balance must be struck.

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

'*WE* wouldn't be in this mess'

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

King of Surface Skimmers (sorry Dan) - acquaintance who still refers to Mr alQ (non-ironically) as 'Bin Liner' and once asked me if Spain is in Europe. Replaced his video six months ago with a DVD player, but still owns only 1 DVD - a collection of 'Friends' episodes which he watches over and over because "I'd rather watch something I know I like than risk watching something new that I might not." In case you doubt that ppl like this exist, he's also a drummer.

― dave q, Saturday, 22 March 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't think surface-skimmers exist. i think even if someone says they only care about what happens on their street, that must bother them deeply somehow. i have no faith that people can be overall content and worriless (but maybe that's because i'm a teenager).

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

'i have no faith that people can be overall content and worriless'

Oh, they DO worry about stuff alright. The intensity of their hysteria is inversely proportional to how much the issue concerns anybody but themselves, however.

― dave q, Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I could be like that. I wish I was one of these people that find good stuff in *everything*, regardless of how shitty it really is. I wish I was brain-dead. Or something.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 22 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"deeply optimistic" != "surface skimmer"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 22 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave Q, I have a use for your friend as a general dogsbody. Can he come over and lick up leaves outside with his tongue?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 March 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Maria, "surface skimmers" exist alright; I have worked with too many of them! I've never trusted those who simply accept any and everything that comes along. Much too simple.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

it's a fine line between wisdom and foolishness

― ron (ron), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm safe enough. I'm just plain foolish. :)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

My roommates in various barracks buildings and dormitories over the past six years have almost invariably been 'surface-skimmers.' However I should also point out that most of them have all been loyal and charitable friends and fairly enjoyable company (esp. when I am drinking) and not at all like Dave Q's creature, who has attributes that while certainly despicable and hilarious are not related in my mind with general politicial apathy. And yeah your neighbour is a butthead, donna. There's a difference between 'I'm sorry, I just don't care about how much everybody hates Dubya and why' and 'nobody should give a shit about other people, we'd all be better off'.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

donna, did you just watch 'about a boy'?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Donna, I think there's a difference between being a surface-skimmer and just not beating yourself up too much about things. You can care, even deeply, about something without causing yourself emotional pain. I feel very strongly about what's going on in Iraq, for instance, but it doesn't prevent me from going about my life relatively happily. Maybe it should, though, I don't know.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

REVIVE!

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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