I just realised what I wrote might sound like if read the wrong way.... so apologies!!
The "you" was general - not meaning you, ekspain. And the "poor slobs" etc.... is just my way of laughing at myself and my situation, but not in a bad way....
Sorry if it sounded bad.... it was not my intention.
I still think love is selfless, btw. It doesn't matter if it's romantic or otherwise. Real love is selfless. Also rare, I grant you.
It's the one thing that turned me off buddhism. I love the idea of escaping the cycle of pain by overcoming feelings, ideas, illusions of desire, etc.... coz I'm really not that into pain.... However, I do believe in love and to love you need to be there, attached, committed. Not attached in an addictive, possessive way. Just there for the other person on a human level, you know..?
This is hard to decide, but I'm going to go with "Enjoying the Coolness of the Air-Conditioner" There are other things that feel better at the time but are served with fear and doubt as side dishes and so Air-Conditioning it will have to be!!
I read everything Karen Blixen ever wrote when I was in my 20's. Short stories...... Damn!!! good writer - one of the best I've ever read, imo......
Back then it was the likes of Herman Hesse, Sartre, Beckett, Chekhov, Isak Dineson and E.M.Forster for me. Also read some Joseph Conrad. Then later on it was Kundera and Marquez. Now it's mostly Taschen art books and books on the subject of happiness..... but rarely.... Can't wait to see what I'll be reading in 10 years time Hope CS is still around!!
I didn't get a look at his face at all. Didn't get the chance. He was standing over me, watching me, like a guardian angel sort of thing or someone who was drawn to me for some reason, I thought, and was just visiting. I really wished he had stayed.
Many times I've wanted to write to you, Flor. Am so looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona
July 1992 I was in bed happy and relaxed and wide awake. Turned round to switch off cd player and saw a transparent man in jeans, belt, t-shirt, jacket - all in colour, standing next to my bed. I was sure (for some reason) that he wasn't a ghost. And I was sure he wasn't bad coz I wasn't frightened... I tried to tell him to stay (telepathically) but he was gone in a second and for some weird reason I was sorry. Don't know why I thought to ask him to stay in the first place. Don't know why I wanted to talk to him...
Flower, Smoky, Anyone Else want to shed some light here. I've always wondered what it was about.
1. I thought people got very attatched to pieces of art and beautiful places, people, objects, mothers to children and visa versa, aswell as their spouses. Attatchment is attatchment, imo.
2. I personally never saw love as a selfish thing in any sense. True love is selfless, again imo. And to love often means to want to stand by another human being, to see that person through. Means you care.
Probably means you see them as more than an illusion (from a buddhist point of view) and so have not attained "detatchment" and so yes, I suppose you would wind up on this seemingly pointless plane with all us poor slobs all over again.
I actually dislike eating alone and avoid sitting at a table because it makes me feel more alone
I usually eat while I am walking around, pottering, doing other stuff..... and I usually stuff all sorts of food into my large-sized royal albert old country roses cup coz it's easy to carry around.
There..... what did you call it, Lago....? ::bachelorette emocion:: for me
2 years ago when I was still walking over an hour a day and dancing and trying to horse-ride, I decided I needed to be more fit in order to dance and ride better so I decided to take advantage of an offer at the local gym.
150 euros for a years membership - Bargain!!!!!!
Went twice - couldn't stand the smell, the crowd, the EXERCISES, the rude, obnoxious people who refused to respect the half hour maximum time on the treadmill, SHOWERING, CHANGING - goddam uncivilised joints if you asked me.....
So like I said - went twice - cost me 75 euros a session - Bargain????
JMOPE (just my own pathetic experience) or....... J-MOPE
RE: Say Something to Someone - I don't care if you're nice
Nina!!!