The One.

What I have to tell you that you won’t hear anyway? You get more than one chance to love something – unreservedly, unabashedly, utterly – but you’re stuck in this antiquated convention that there is only one true person. Open your eyes. We are all imperfect parts with which to make perfect machines. People don’t shake your hand and see your soul; they shake it and see your perceptions, your façade, and you can make it any shape you want. Make it fit and you will find love, no matter where or how many times you need to.

Changes

There are periods in your life where you start to let something go – a friendship, a relationship, a vivid memory – something that you’ve clutched for so long because you didn’t know how life could go on without it. And then the world changes and distracts you, a moment here, a few minutes there, until this intangible idol gets set down for a minute while you take care of something, then looked after once or twice a day, and so forth, until you realize that its leaving you forever, slowly fading from your grasp, no matter how beautiful the thing, all you can do is watch it disappear. All you can do is shed a final tear and forget.

What I have lived for ...

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."

-Bertrand Russell, What I Have Lived For

Now that's Sexy

Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel! Talk to everyone! Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world!!

Uncertainty

It occurs to me sometimes that the path we choose for the future, the way we see the road beyond the fog, is rarely what we encounter when we step into the mist. One has to pay the most attention to where one’s feet are presently, and then to the next step. And then the next. Anticipating the direction of the path beyond your sight is crucial, but only once you are sure-footed on what you can see.

what i have found ...

a creature who is my equal and who is as strong and independent as I am