Diamond Surfers.

Single girl about town Byrony Gordon writes

“Where, exactly have I got going for the bloke who listens to Bob Dylan and spends his time surfing and skateboarding? Nowheresivlle, that’s where.”

She adds maybe there are worse things than being materialistic.

There probably are worse things than being materialistic depending on how you want to live your life, but I feel that saying going for the bloke that surfs and listens to Bob Dylan means booking yourself a one way ticket to nowheresivlle is a bit harsh. Not just on the surfer dude but on the single girl too.

Another way of looking at it is if you go for a bloke who listens to Bob Dylan and spends his time surfing or skateboarding, and you bag yourself said man then where you are is where it’s at. Surely just let the good times roll.

If it was the 60`s the simple solution would be to go out with one of the Beatles who at the time would have been young, full of life, more than likely listening to Bob Dylan but with surfboard substituted for guitar your Beatle boyfriend would be earning enough money to buy you things.

Here’s a simple truth every man no matter how much money he has in his bank can kiss, and it is within anyone’s means to take a rug lay it on the beach then kick back and gaze at the stars.

There is nothing wrong with being materialistic, many people in the world earn money, and money has got to be spent on something.

Yet it costs nothing to kiss, share time, talk or listen, these actions are quality and it is sad if material possessions are required to make up for their absence. How many times do we disgracefully try and buy our way out of neglect or nurture. As if flashing a bit of money will make everything all right, It’s too easy and too meaningless.

Of course being materialistic has both its positives and negatives, if you don’t need to be surrounded by material possessions to feel at peace and have a good time, then life is a whole lot easier, because where you are is exactly where you want to be perfect, easy, no problems.

If on the other hand you need material possessions to fill a hole than you’ve got to get them from somewhere.

In which case the answer lies in the materials, a giant TV, a house in the country, a whole load of china dogs, or maybe you need your man to provide you with say x amount of designer shoes or a big shiny diamond on a ring.

If that’s the case than the Bob Dylan surfer type probably won’t be able to take you where you want to go, you see surfer boy is already somewhere, he’s more than likely found his world, in which case it’s the person who’s looking for something else or more that is heading away from the mainland to the call of nowhereman.

Speaking materialistically Id like a girl who instead of wanting a diamond ring on her finger to show her friends, would prefer a ring carved from wood, with a token of love inscribed into it such as “fleur de les étoiles”, flower of the stars.

Diamonds have their uses, according to an old saying diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but unless that girl is a burglar or an industrial miner I don’t see how this can be, it gets me to thinking that maybe diamond rings exist solely so that people with lots of money actually have something else to spend it on, otherwise it’d be pretty silly having all that money.

It’s at these times I like to borrow and twist a handy phrase from the film “cool runnings” if you’re not enough without the diamonds then you’ll never be enough with them. Then again maybe diamonds are gifts which can grant you magical powers in which case, I eat all my words and bow down to your shiny twinkly twinkly awesomeness.