Understand the Jersey Shore
The economy has slowed us all down a bit. We are less busy and more stressed. Our minds are constantly flashing new ideas and new fears; we are torn between fears and dreams. It seems that as our daily lives slow up a bit in theses hard times, we seem to have more fear yet dream greater at the same time. The fears are obvious, living in a world of war and terrorism and an economy filled with unemployment and scams. We fear even to open an email because there are computer terrorists out there sending viruses. We fear job security, investments, and financial hardships as they approach. We fear disease and STD’s; we fear the effects of medicines and foods that we eat. We fear our health; even the air that we breathe may be soiled. Yet in a world filled with so much fear, we dream greater than ever, we think more and become smarter.
I sit at my desk thinking and dreaming all day long. The phone rings just once all day. Business is slow. I dream and dream and dream away. I dream of the red stairs at Temptation, I dream of the bright sun at the Surf Club. I dream of ordering a Miami Vice from Z. I dream of the cramped little shore house that doesn't have enough beds to sleep everyone. I dream of the music and the dancing, the beautiful women in the very little clothing they wear. I dream of little oddities that you only see at the Jersey shore. One thing that comes to mind is a man that I took a picture of at the Surf Club last summer. I think this man sums up the difference between life now and life between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.
The New Jersey Shore is our medicine for fear and stress. It is a place where we all feel young regardless of how old we are. It is a place that our fathers and grandfathers our mothers and grandmothers and aunts and uncles went generation after generation to forget their fears and stress, to relive their memories and to be young in their older years. In New Jersey, summer at the shore is therapy; it gets us through the rest of the year. The thought of being at the Surf Club on Sunday or Temptations on Saturday or Sunday is enough to pull any New Jersey Guido/Guidette through any struggle that we may encounter throughout a the year. That is why we love the Jersey Shore. Now you know.
~Moo