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Disappointing Evening

I had some dinner guest's over last evening. I had my main system warming up just in case there was some interest from them in audio. I have a second system that was playing when they arrived. It's a Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 9000 that my inlaws gave me a few years back. Well soon enough a couple of them were commenting about the good music, so I asked if they would like to hear my pride and joy system, mostly all tube gear that (IMO) looks pretty cool with all the tubes lit up and sounds way better than the B&O stuff. No interest at all in the tube system and they hovered around the B&O loving the way the glass door opened and the arm moved to each CD. Boy was I insulted, all the time, money and energy I have in my tube system!
markpao
lrsky
1,118 posts
 
Mrtennis,

"are people so insecure that they want or need to impress ?"

You were being sarcastic with this question right? You weren't serious...tell me/us you really were kidding, right?

The human existence is a continual series of 'how to impress', whether its a car, a new dress, special make up, hair plugs, lyposuction, botox injections, a new fence, a new pool, a pool table, special wheels, losing ten pounds to fit into 34" waist again, (almost there)a new Jag, (best friend), naming a company after yourself,(guilty) buying artwork that, after a bit, like everything else, you don't even notice, using a smoother voice when you know it's a really good looking girl calling, sucking in your stomach when she first sees you, standing up straight, to show that you're actually 6'1", spending a long time picking out glasses.

Our (almost) entire economy is based on impressing others.

My question is, who DOESN'T?

Good listening,
Larry
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
my intent was neither sarcastic nor to be funny.

what i am saying is obvious. it's unfortunate that someone feels the need to impress someone.

i don't have such a need.

i am more inner directed and less other directed.

the superficial is most unimportant.

it is a matter of priorities in life.
inna
7,510 posts
 
Mrtennis, if you didn't have "such a need" you would not have written what you did. Think about it.
We all have this need.
hifihvn
943 posts
 
Someone sounds like a school kid trying to impress a girl. With my middle age bulge and all, I have young girls flirt with me at the beach (lake/ocean), hotel pool, when I'm just in my swim suit. They don't know what I drive, bank account, etc. If we only could live our life like the older show called Boeing-Boeing. LOL.
cyclonicman
693 posts
 
We live in a material world, that doesn't mean it's bad. It's for us to enjoy and it's truly what you make it, good or bad. As Lrsky has stated, we are all human and with that comes a lot of shortcomings. Pretending that we are above it all is not spirituality, but pretense. One man believes that he is sharing, while another perceives that he is trying to impress.
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