Something my cousin wrote which I agree with...
this is a quote that has put perspective in my life a few times over. It has always brought a few questions to mind:
1.why do people feel the need to replace passion with "relationships"?
2. what happen to courtship?
3. why must people feel the need to put a "title" on things they feel?
4.and why can't people just let things be?
I personally would much rather feel the passion, live life, and experience life with another person, and if it goes somewhere then it does. I don't feel people have to actully say what they are to one another in order to mean something to the world. I feel it is better left unsaid and just feel for one another what is natural . If I had to choose passion or a relationship I would pick passion, because to be passionate toureds something are someone is to be in love with that which you are passionate about.
now the quote:
"Future? Oh, I get it. You mean you don't foresee a pot of gold at the end of our juicy rainbow. You mean that our intimacy isn't likely to yield a dividend. You disappoint me. I hoped you might have a watt or two more light in your bulb than those poor toads who look on romance as an investment, like waterfront property...Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Well, remember this: we are not involved in a 'relationship,' you and I, we are involved in a collision. Collisions don't much lend themselves to secure futures, but the act of colliding is hard to beat for interest. Correct me if I'm wrong."
"A collision is exactly what you do need, because collisions are transformative. A relationship can occasionally fulfill a person, but only a collision can transform them. It's the same for cultures as it is for individuals. "
-Tom Robbins