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Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Monday, January 28, 2019
preservation of full disclosure (one)
(originally published on May 28, 2011.)
I don’t match up 100% to this. Thinking honestly of making one that more accurately reflects me. But I believe in a lot of it, and it’s a great, honest statement as it stands.
I don’t match up 100% to this. Thinking honestly of making one that more accurately reflects me. But I believe in a lot of it, and it’s a great, honest statement as it stands.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
preservation of sweetness
(originally published May 9, 2011.)
(originally from: hoodoothatvoodoo)
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
~Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)
(originally from: hoodoothatvoodoo)
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
preservation of distance
(originally published May 7, 2011.)
No; if anything, you have to find more reasons to retain the friendship aspects, because intimacy seems built into the net. Intimacy, flirting, and falling in love--those things are easy. Staying in love, that can be tricky. Once that first flush is gone, then it's time for the interchange of ideas, for digging deeper, for really getting to know this person you may never even meet in person.
Of course, the rewards for that are innumerable, and well worth the risk. (Though I don’t see a lot of difference between long-distance relationshipping and in-person relationshipping. I know others aren’t like that.)
No; if anything, you have to find more reasons to retain the friendship aspects, because intimacy seems built into the net. Intimacy, flirting, and falling in love--those things are easy. Staying in love, that can be tricky. Once that first flush is gone, then it's time for the interchange of ideas, for digging deeper, for really getting to know this person you may never even meet in person.
Of course, the rewards for that are innumerable, and well worth the risk. (Though I don’t see a lot of difference between long-distance relationshipping and in-person relationshipping. I know others aren’t like that.)
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