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Love is NOT... about your own needs or about the way another person makes you feel about yourself.

Love is NOT...about yourself at all.

Love IS...about only that other person: knowing them completely and seeing them in a way no one else does; realizing their strengths AND their weaknesses but seeing only beauty; transforming imperfect pieces into a perfect whole.

Love IS...wanting the world for that person and trying to make all their dreams come true, wanting to kiss all their pain away and replace it with only joy.

Love IS...pure and unadulterated by this little thing called "you".

Love IS...imperfectly loving an imperfect person in a paradoxically perfect way.

Love IS...something I miss...
 
I wrote this in my diary when I was 18 [I honestly can't remember if I wrote it or not so if someone has read it before please let me know!]... and this topic reminded me of it so I thought I'd try and find it. [Sorry, I know it's not one line.... :( ]

A long time ago I thought I knew what love was... the butterflies, the constant thinking of them, you know what i mean.

Now I recognise that as infatuation.

Time passed.

I thought I knew what love was... a chemical signal, genetic programming, a weakness in the human psyche.

Now I recognise that as cynicism.

More time passed.

Still later, I again thought I knew what love was... an unconditional lifelong commitment to someone you care for more than yourself.

Now I recognise that as optimism.

So what do I think of love now?

I think of it as a poet's dream... a thing for cheap paperbacks in chemists and newsagents.
 
OK... new topic.

WORDS TO LIVE BY

I'm always entrigued by little life quotes... sometimes a customer at the bar will say something witty, and I'll try to remember it. A counselor I had a few years ago had a great quote to live by taped to her office door. Every time I went to talk to her, before I started bawling about how bad my life was, I would read that quote, at least once, and I have it to memory now.

So what little tidbits do you carry around in your head? What one-liners, quotes, or random facts seem the stuff of wisdom to you?

Here are the little things that are etched into my memory, which slip out of my mouth every now and then. Or which I live my life by.

* * *

[from my counselor's door] "If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

[from an old online friend] "You'll regret not doing something more than doing it." ~Erik

[from Jim Morrison] "Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven´s claws"

[from "The Man in the Glass"] "You may fool the whole world down your pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass. " ~ Dale Winbrough
 
"Just when you escape, you have yourself to fear." ~ Tori Amos

"There are 2 paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on." ~ Led Zeppelin
 
It's actually in my signature, and it kind of rings true -

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are ~ Anonymous
 
"Innocence is the only thing are born with. All else must be fought for." ~ Tangina in Poltergeist 3
 
use, do not abuse. neither abstinence nor excess renders man happy.

voltaire.
 
Topic 3: On Regret...

NEXT TOPIC: The Way I Didn't Live My Life
[On Regret...]

Someone asked me if the next topic could be about Regret. This probably isn't what they had in mind, but i thought it could be a little different.

* * *

I didn't drink coffee. Never liked the taste of it, but always loved the smell of it. Sometimes I'm jealous of people who drink coffee. I dont know why, I just am. I'm the one who always orders Hot Chocolate at Starbucks.

I didnt do the whole "college is one big party" thing. I could've cared less about keg parties and sororities. Yet still, a $100K+/yr job won't make up for some of the things I wish I'd have done when i was younger.

I didn't go to WMC. And I should have.

I wasted too much time learning about heartache, and not enough about integrity.

I wasn't a good enough friend to my sister when she was growing up. Now she's all grown up, and we're more like strangers than anything. She's just a girl with my eyes whose clothes i can borrow.

I could never just "let things go". I always wanted to win every argument. And I still do. And it still gets me in trouble.

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These, of course, aren't my REAL regrets in life.
And I'm not going to post those here.

But you are welcome to.
 
I should have saved them.
I should have kept M.
I should have listened to R.
I should have made it
easier for me to
pick up the peices
and put it all together
before I shattered
as a prerequisite to coming here
to try to learn why we
don't learn from history.
 
love is a feeling an emotional experience which is only a reaction of chemicals, you see perfection, you see glamour, but its all a mask to escape much of the real word..

love is the humans race form of escapism
 
regrets something that really eats away at me :\

i dont regret one thing right now in my life. regrets (for me) are often a result of a mistake...i learn from my mistakes...so i learn from regrets...which means i dont dwell on em. so i dont get held back emotionally and mentally.

if i dwelled on everything i should of done, everything i could of done then i will never get to do the things i can do.
 
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