Well, that's part of the point of the poll. It's about separating our internal reality - the image we have of ourselves - from a more objective reality.
I've had the same feeling - glimpsing my reflection in a passing mirror or window and thinking: WTF? What happened to that thirty year old guy I was so sure I still am?
It's good to see some people have the guts to publicly proclaim their opinion. Of course, Heart-Lease, in your case that really doesn't require much courage.
Good suggestion, Flower - I've considered it, but am not quite ready to subscribe. The reason: I have a bloody hard enough time getting off the phone as it is. With Skype, I might never get off (well, in the traditional sense, of course)
Just finished reading an article online about how people evaluate their looks with respect to their age. I'm wondering if CSers will confirm or deny the conclusion of that article.
Well, let me re-phrase my question (which is rather different from what Scottishlass intended):
If you had a choice between being able to love people and no one being able to love you and being unable to love people but people were able to love you, which would you choose?
First, Beautiful, are those really your lips? Have you been channeling Angelina??
I'd like to ask a serious question, which I think may warrant its own thread (imo), namely: Exactly what value is obtained from loving someone? I'm not sure I see why loving someone makes you a better person per se (aside from the obvious provisos of the nature of that love and its context); I mean, what virtue obtains from loving someone? If you had a choice to merely like others or to love them, in what way would you be morally or spiritually bereft - or inferior to, say, beings that don't feel love?
These are very complicated questions which I'm guessing may not be appropriate for most of this list - they require far more than the usual bromidic analysis which treats the answers as self-evident - but I'm still interested in what people here would have to say...
RE: Does a profile name affect your decision to initiate or reciprocate contact?
Hey, you're talking about Bubbles' fiiance there, JB!