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Several very different scenarios involving loss recently presented themselves in my life.

(1) My grandfather just died. He was 95. As far as his spirit and mind, he had been slowly dying for quite some time now. Any notion of who "he" was had been extinguished, and in this sense his death only served as a trivial marker for the passing of a body ( Read more... )

A super amazing pal very-wisely told me that what I need to do to move on from this pseudo-relationship-mess that happened on and off for the last four years is to come to a point where I don't regret anything from the past.

No more "if only"s, no more "but if"s, no more justifying what he did or I did, no more wishing I would've or he could've or ( Read more... )

I was flattered last night when a bouncer at the 90's demanded my age with a skeptical look...but then I thought about why I was flattered: I was in my fake-self club mood...and it's a socially-conditioned thing to be flattered, especially when the surface-level semi-fake party-boy facade is on.... But, no, really...why?

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One of the many things that irk me to a sufficient degree to write about it ( Read more... )

I wrote this in an email, and I'm not gonna edit it ( Read more... )

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It's unfortunate the way we young people tend to look at our lives:
You're twenty-four and you haven't found "Mister" or "Misses Right" just yet, and you're all bent out of shape about it.
You're twenty-four and you're "getting old."

It's sad that there is a correlation between the two.
It's sad that I thought that way, too.

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The halo effect refers to a cognitive bias whereby the perception of a particular trait is influenced by the perception of the former traits in a sequence of interpretations. ~Wikipedia

The lucky are those who fall in love, and get what they want. If they want short-lived love, then they receive it. If they want everlasting love, then they receive ( Read more... )

I like to spend proportionally more time with people who I see as sticking around, being a part of my life for longer than a few days, weeks, months ( Read more... )