ownership

[Kid Cossack]

Cloves:

Yeah, I'll fess up. I wear a kilt every day. I haven't worn pants, or short pants, in . . . dang, a couple of years at least. And I'm mostly the only guy running around Houston in a kilt. When I went to the Highland Games last year, it just felt so wrong, all these guys running around in kilts everywhere. I wasn't proud that they were honoring their heritage (or just flashing some calf)---I was irked that these POSERS were out here DOING MY THING.

I take deep breaths, and think to myself, "Share the love, dude, share the love."

[KiltedKnight]

Cloves:

Yeah, I'll fess up. I wear a kilt every day. I haven't worn pants, or short pants, in . . . dang, a couple of years at least. And I'm mostly the only guy running around Houston in a kilt. When I went to the Highland Games last year, it just felt so wrong, all these guys running around in kilts everywhere. I wasn't proud that they were honoring their heritage (or just flashing some calf)---I was irked that these POSERS were out here DOING MY THING.

I take deep breaths, and think to myself, "Share the love, dude, share the love."

It is kind of confusing, this thing about "your thing". I have been wearing kilts for well over twenty five years on most continents of the earth but have always worn the kilt for special occasions, whether that occasion was a wedding, a funeral, a night out on the town or just because I wanted to take my wife out for dinner but I have never given much thought to wearing the kilt everyday since that to me is like the guy who discovers religion and runs around with a religious tome trying to convert everyone and their brother to the new "thing" they have found. They get really boring, really fast.

My point is this, I have on many occasions attended the Renn Faires kilted and sometimes I don't but if I do, I'm doing YOUR thing? Is this a bit arrogant or am I reading it wrong?

One must remember that there are many people who discovered long ago what we have discovered long after but don't lose control because they know that this isn't something that the rest of the world hasn't caught onto yet.

Like the old C&W song said, "I was country, when country wasn't cool".

Chris.

[Abax]

I was irked that these POSERS were out here DOING MY THING.

Is this a bit arrogant or am I reading it wrong?

I read Kid Cossack's statement as being ironic. I think he and Cloves are relating a time when they came to the realize that something they had thought was theirs was becoming ubiquitous.

I've had that realization before. At the time (when I was younger), I wondered if something important was being taken away from me, and had my worth (even self-worth) been somehow diminished. Of course not . . . that seems kind of silly now.

Abax

[cloves]

My point is this, I have on many occasions attended the Renn Faires kilted and sometimes I don't but if I do, I'm doing YOUR thing? Is this a bit arrogant or am I reading it wrong?

I'm not certain if it's arrogance or not, but like I said in my first post, it's really selfish of me to think that way. When I catch myself feeling like that, I make a real attempt to stop it.

This seems hypocritical to me. You can't ask someone to like something and then get upset when they like it. Why should you be the only one allowed to admire something?

That's because it IS hypocritcal of me. It was the point of my post.
Even though sometimes I feel like I have ownership of something, I really don't. And I shouldn't get bent out of shape when others discover something I happen to like also, even if I wasn't the one to show it to them first.

Anyways, I hope I didn't p*ss anybody off. I was just trying to make some sort of statment about ownership and maybe even kilt snobbery.