He actually worked at the park for a while. I work over there as an independent contractor so I had seen him a lot over a couple of summers. I'm a people watcher so was already aware of his weirdness, not from any interaction, just noticing oddball behavior. He had this strange arched back walk, shoulders back, and a really strange half smile all the time. I mean even as I was driving by in my truck and he was standing on the edge of a group of people there was that smile, not directed at me just looking off into the distance. The penny comment was the first and last words ever spoken to me by the guy. Funny thing is, a couple of weeks after he was trying to buy my inner most thoughts, I saw a girl I know down at the beach. I noticed she said hello to him in a really friendly way. I pulled her aside after and said wtf is that guys deal? She said "oh you mean so an so? He's a great guy and is dating Jill (one of the hottest volunteer girls that summer). Jill was the most perfect girl I had ever seen down there, medium height, blond, tan and perfect body. Not to mention she was funny, friendly and loved surfing. Maybe that was why he was always smiling.
Zen Master??? A Zen master would spontaneously just say: “Penny for your thoughts” and have a bigger impact than all the words I had to write and think and correct. On the other hand I’m stuck with a funny horse video that is the closest representation of who I’m, and I just surf like a horse too. Zippy you might have been in the presence of a Zen Master but the "mind" as DosXX said blocked out the realities of the situation. The fact that you still remember his words shows the power of the words on you. No one can give you the answer to what he meant, only you can find out. The words are not coming from him directly, but from your subconscious mind, you attracted this situation, he was just open to act spontaneously without social standards, no programming, that is a Zen Master or an insane person. Looking in the right direction is difficult because we always look for answers outside of self, we try to find the answer on others, but the social program can just reinforce itself by agreeing with the weirdness of the situation, but if you look at how you acted to his words, you might discover the preference of your act and attitudes ( Boxes). I’m not telling you to have coffee with the guy, just search within. Sometimes our act and thoughts are worth exactly one penny, because they lack authenticity, it lacks truth and honesty. When we run our life on social standards, then nothing is authentic, and we have nothing to learn or contribute. We are in a computer program just repeating old social standards like nice robots. The true definition of insanity is Spiritual elevation, I just made that up but it sounds better than searching on the dictionary. People usually judge authenticity as weird and invalidate the contribution that the other person might be providing. I got the best teachings from insanity, anger, arrogance, violence, sex, addiction and passion to mention a few, I never learnt anything from the Pope or Dalai Lama or my mom and dad. Just to give you an example the other day I saw a guy out of his mind dancing with pole as if he was Keith Richards. Spontaneously I thought it was such a powerful message that i couldn’t stop laughing. The pole and electricity in that moment represented the problems of human life, we all have them’ right? Human Drama. The difference is that most of us hold onto our problems very tight and usually do not let go, we believe them to be true. Now this guy was teaching me to just dance with them, and for the moment I saw that it was a perfect teaching for the situation I had. Every moment has lots of meaning, we just do not look. We can always choose to walk away with a blank face, but then we would be in a position of not understanding the game for what it is, and always loosing the contribution that we might be receiving. Satori could be happening right now, but you will miss it the moment you have a penny thought about it. if I got a smile out of you, then you got it. Lets pray for more weird people to enlighten our retarded ways. And now for all of you I’m going surfing.
Crazy Horse, get me two. Prease. No surfy here today. I'm high, and it's not even 8 yet. Fresh baldy, but no wife beater and socks. Lurking golf courses with my wolf childrenne, time to stacky woode.
I am still an arrogant weed smoker LOL. But now when I smoke, I try to be more cloudlike, and watch my self rain.
I think many have come back as aliases. I'm wondering why this thread never made it to the top? Re-reading the posts got me thinking how this forum has changed since then. I speak for myself when I say, being arrogant these days has left me going in circles. Most of the time I don't see it, other times I don't care and it bothers me. I need change. Honestly, and I hate to say it, but the reason this forum has changed for the worse is because of our own arrogance. There are many good people here that share the same love for surfing but our egos get the best of us and want to fit in and feel like we are important contributors to a web-site that would otherwise fail without us. In some ways it is true but in return we are dragging each other down along with this forum. Why is this forum dead? Because we are choosing it to die to spite others. To me that's the true definition of an arrogant surfer.