To know you like your tongue knows the back of your teeth. That's all I want. - Iain Thomas via I Wrote This For You
That's an interesting desire, but you have to think about that. To know someone that well, that in depth, would get boring over time. Knowing someone that intimately, where you learn nothing new of them from that point on, would be stagnant. I much prefer learning something new every time I interact with people. To be constantly surprised and amazed by someone even after knowing them for years. That is the goal. That is the prize. Knowing every detail of someone's life is intimate, not because you know the details, but because of why you know them. It is the learning of those details, the sharing, the connection that you form over a period of time that matters. The details themselves are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
My random musings
I think I am going to use this blog as a repository for my various moments of philosophical, romantic, or psychological musings. Every once and a while I have a moment of clarity and write something that I find interesting and sometimes insightful. Here are a couple that I have written recently.
I was wondering if we could talk. Not because I have anything important to say. No, I just want to talk because I love talking to you. I love hearing your thoughts and ideas. I really don't care what we're talking about. Any subject will do. I just want to spend as much time as you can spare talking with you. Give me a minute and I'll be satisfied. An hour, and I'll be happy. A lifetime, I will love you until the stars die.
Every person you meet attaches to you a tether that binds you together. Each begins as thin as a hair, but over time, the layers build up until the tether is thick as the steel cords of a suspension bridge. Depending on the person and the relationship, they can be as smooth and gentle as silk or chafe like rough spun hemp. The trick to getting through life is to find which are the smooth tethers and strengthen them, while severing the rough. The more rough connections in your life, the more pain and discomfort you will feel. Cut the rough cords and treasure the gentle.
I was wondering if we could talk. Not because I have anything important to say. No, I just want to talk because I love talking to you. I love hearing your thoughts and ideas. I really don't care what we're talking about. Any subject will do. I just want to spend as much time as you can spare talking with you. Give me a minute and I'll be satisfied. An hour, and I'll be happy. A lifetime, I will love you until the stars die.
Every person you meet attaches to you a tether that binds you together. Each begins as thin as a hair, but over time, the layers build up until the tether is thick as the steel cords of a suspension bridge. Depending on the person and the relationship, they can be as smooth and gentle as silk or chafe like rough spun hemp. The trick to getting through life is to find which are the smooth tethers and strengthen them, while severing the rough. The more rough connections in your life, the more pain and discomfort you will feel. Cut the rough cords and treasure the gentle.
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