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 Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:07 pm
stop and smell the flowers has always been a part of my life. when i go shoping or go to work, i see people just hurrying by and just concentraiting on what they're doing at that time. I never see anyone just take a few seconds and just stop and look around at the world. because of this i have gotten into a proud habit of just looking straight up into the sky. and i have seen things that i never would have if i had kept on going with my life. i have seen spectacular cloud formations, especially when it is raining. they literally rippled across the sky. it looked just like the "nothing" from the never ending story movie at the beginning of the opening credits. one of my favorite spottings was seeing a flock of birds that had to have several hundred in the group within the city flying overhead. it looked like a giant black net.
does anybody else do things that other people don't really do anymore?
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:00 pm
spearquest stop and smell the flowers has always been a part of my life. when i go shoping or go to work, i see people just hurrying by and just concentraiting on what they're doing at that time. I never see anyone just take a few seconds and just stop and look around at the world. because of this i have gotten into a proud habit of just looking straight up into the sky. and i have seen things that i never would have if i had kept on going with my life. i have seen spectacular cloud formations, especially when it is raining. they literally rippled across the sky. it looked just like the "nothing" from the never ending story movie at the beginning of the opening credits. one of my favorite spottings was seeing a flock of birds that had to have several hundred in the group within the city flying overhead. it looked like a giant black net. does anybody else do things that other people don't really do anymore? Actually, I look down when I walk. Not to say that I'm in a hurry, of course! I just, I think a lot. I know it might sound weird, but I like to just sit by myself and think. No TV, no computer, no music, nothing. I really don't think people do that anymore, because someone will come in and ask me what I'm doing, and when I tell them, they just give me this look like I need therapy or something. My friends don't understand it either. Just thinking is like a foreign thought to everyone I tell. I really want to know why that is, too. Also, Spearquest, have you noticed that when people see others just looking at the sky, or just looking off into space, that they get weirded out by it? It's like it's not even accepted anymore. That really makes me sad. crying (sorry, long rant sweatdrop )
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:11 pm
Cakepwn spearquest stop and smell the flowers has always been a part of my life. when i go shoping or go to work, i see people just hurrying by and just concentraiting on what they're doing at that time. I never see anyone just take a few seconds and just stop and look around at the world. because of this i have gotten into a proud habit of just looking straight up into the sky. and i have seen things that i never would have if i had kept on going with my life. i have seen spectacular cloud formations, especially when it is raining. they literally rippled across the sky. it looked just like the "nothing" from the never ending story movie at the beginning of the opening credits. one of my favorite spottings was seeing a flock of birds that had to have several hundred in the group within the city flying overhead. it looked like a giant black net. does anybody else do things that other people don't really do anymore? Actually, I look down when I walk. Not to say that I'm in a hurry, of course! I just, I think a lot. I know it might sound weird, but I like to just sit by myself and think. No TV, no computer, no music, nothing. I really don't think people do that anymore, because someone will come in and ask me what I'm doing, and when I tell them, they just give me this look like I need therapy or something. My friends don't understand it either. Just thinking is like a foreign thought to everyone I tell. I really want to know why that is, too. Also, Spearquest, have you noticed that when people see others just looking at the sky, or just looking off into space, that they get weirded out by it? It's like it's not even accepted anymore. That really makes me sad. crying (sorry, long rant sweatdrop ) yeah, they tend to think of those people as being absent minded
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:24 pm
I definitely think I do. I hold doors for ladies, mantain my own garden etc and I follow the Rules of Courtly Love but I think people stopped doing that one a few centuries ago, as for hurrying through life I take it slow too maybe too slow though.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:32 am
I try to notice the beauty in everything natural. especially people. I love looking at people and seeing how they move and their body language and just their shape in general. people are beautiful, intricate creatures.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:43 am
hella uncool I try to notice the beauty in everything natural. especially people. I love looking at people and seeing how they move and their body language and just their shape in general. people are beautiful, intricate creatures. I also love looking down when I walk. you'd be amazed whats on the ground sometimes! and I also just like to sit and think for no real reason. oh! I have a beautiful story in my head that I add on to every day! I've been going at it for a few tears now. I can sit for hours just thinking out the story and picturing it. I'm trying to learn how to properly make a manga-esque comic out of it but there's just sooo much...I can't ever properly explain it. I have an extremely vivid and amazing imagination heart
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:19 am
I do try to notice things. I believe I do a lot of things that other people don't anymore... Like...hm... Well, it's hard to say the things right now. But one thing I always think of is writing letters. Even though all my friends have email and instant messaging programs, I take the time out to send mail through the postal system to close friends and my boyfriend. I've always liked writing, so that's probably why...but it also always seems to make people happy to receive something in the mail. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:19 pm
The small things in life, its something I always notice something no else does around me. The way a cloud is, the sound of the rain hitting the window. A scent of the river a few blocks away. Or how a child will smile at something I may see as well. Small things.
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:52 am
What I notice is that everyone is obssesing with living longer and looking younger, but don't really live at all. By living I don't mean that generally accepted thought of living life to the fullest by seeing how many times in a day you can jump from a plan or stuff as much exoctic food specialties into your stomach. What I'm talking about is actually appreciating everything you have already. You don't have to spend thousands of dollars to travel the world to appreciate the earth, or quit smoking, or dieting (this post does not condone putting yourself and/or others in danger just the idea that we should live and stop listening to so much propaganda telling us how to live), only take the time to make strong friendships, observe the clouds, smell fresh baked bread, listen to every instrument in a classical piece; all in all just live and enjoy life because it is still short whether you live to the age of 50 or 80. We'll all pass.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:23 pm
You know, I never really thought of myself as the kind of person who notices the kinds of things you mentioned, but when I went to Paris and brought back my pictures and showed them to my friends, they wondered why I'd been taking photographs of cloud formations and flowers instead of all the famous landmarks. Go figure. I guess I do notice seemingly insignificant things after all. Either that, or I'd seen the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe enough times already in pictures and on postcards.
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:46 pm
hella uncool I try to notice the beauty in everything natural. especially people. I love looking at people and seeing how they move and their body language and just their shape in general. people are beautiful, intricate creatures. squee~ heart whee I agree what with she said humans are fasinating primates too look at milling about and doing their own things 3nodding lets just hope she's a looker too~ wink *ahem* anyway I usually don't look around at stupid crap if I have to be somwhere or I want to go somwhere because I set myself to "walk" and my mind wanders like when your driving a car you can see of the horizon but your just thinking..anyway if I don't have any place to be or time or somthing I stop and look at everything..if I'm in a field I tend to look down at the ground as I walk "ooh hello misses queen cricket oh your a fat and sassy one arn't you! Oh look a frog! Bon-jouer monsieur frog~ heart "
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:38 am
I know I'm not the only one who does this but some days it feels like it. Me I try to be polite as often as possible and also I'm one of those goodies that hasn't drank, smoked, done drugs, or had sex and I'm 18. The olden days when people had morales seem to have left us. Ah well hopefully it'll change. Who knows?
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:27 am
I wouldn't say nobody does this anymore, but I try to look presentable every time I leave my house. I don't mean I go all out and put on a suit to run errands, but I do put on a whole, planned outfit that never includes sweatpants or any clothes I would wear to the gym.
I'm not saying that I think we need to go back to the days when it was unacceptable for men to go out in public in anything less than a jacket and tie. I'm just tired of looking at people in their pajamas, or in clothes that deliberately don't fit--I am rather embarrased to say that my generation was the first to embrace the muffin-top-creating, ultra tight, low rise jeans and the boxer-short-exposing, belted-at-the-thigh, super baggy pants.
I always like to look my best (which, admittedly, is not particularly spectacular), and I don't understand why so many people prefer to look sloppy in public.
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