That makes a great deal of sense. It's a fragile time, the beginning of a relationship, and if you're out of synch in any number of ways the whole thing occasionally shatters.
I wonder if the implication of this is that someone who really believes they're undilutedly cool feels differently about the level of adulation they get from someone in NRE. Although perhaps that would require they be really arrogant, and then things would implode because of that at a slightly different point.
Another implication is that greater experience tends to attenuate this reaction; a few times around the block, one perhaps understands that no one is the coolest thing since poptarts, no matter how cool they seem at the time. (So, I admit that poptarts set a high bar.)
But a while after that maybe one figures out that it's okay, that pretty cool is a rare enough thing as it is.
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Date: 2007-01-03 06:54 am (UTC)I wonder if the implication of this is that someone who really believes they're undilutedly cool feels differently about the level of adulation they get from someone in NRE. Although perhaps that would require they be really arrogant, and then things would implode because of that at a slightly different point.
Another implication is that greater experience tends to attenuate this reaction; a few times around the block, one perhaps understands that no one is the coolest thing since poptarts, no matter how cool they seem at the time. (So, I admit that poptarts set a high bar.)
But a while after that maybe one figures out that it's okay, that pretty cool is a rare enough thing as it is.