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"People (Soul)"

I was in a club last night, and somewhere near the end that killers song came on - 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier...'

And it suddenly struck me, I don't think I really have soul any more.


I used to be a typical nice guy, I cared about people, was friendly, crap (nice) with women, but ended up 'friends' a lot.

In the last few months I've chaged. I'm less concerned over peoples' opinions of me, less obviously nice, and much less hung up over all those nice guy things like love, relationships and sadness. I just want to have a good time.

I used to see those kind of indifferent, 'cool' people around and think they were shallow and lame. Now I seem to be becoming one of them.

It felt odd, changing, but I was okay with it. Until that song, and now I'm not so sure.

Have I lost my soul?
Or am I just less pretentious?


Or: Deep people and shallow people - what's really going on there then?

I was in a club last night, and somewhere near the end that killers song came on - 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier...'

And it suddenly struck me, I don't think I really have soul any more.


I used to be a typical nice guy, I cared about people, was friendly, crap (nice) with women, but ended up 'friends' a lot.

In the last few months I've chaged. I'm less concerned over peoples' opinions of me, less obviously nice, and much less hung up over all those nice guy things like love, relationships and sadness. I just want to have a good time.

I used to see those kind of indifferent, 'cool' people around and think they were shallow and lame. Now I seem to be becoming one of them.

It felt odd, changing, but I was okay with it. Until that song, and now I'm not so sure.

Have I lost my soul?
Or am I just less pretentious?


Or: Deep people and shallow people - what's really going on there then?

You've finally realised that life is ultimately pointless? That humankind's greatest achievement, the mind, gives us the ability to see how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things? That women are just snakes with t*ts?

monkey_man wrote:
> snakes with t*ts

This will give me good dreams or terrible nightmares, I'm sure.

Buh. I took my time about it.


Mmm, snakes with t*ts...

It's important to remember that we create our souls, usually in the image of our currently favoured archetype of self. So I wouldn't let your notion of the soul slip too far into a mash of unseasoned hotpot.

You just sound a little less pretentious to me.
I mean, I guess you still care about people, just without having to be all "caring"...

I think people sometimes get too caught up in the clichés of being "nice" or "caring".