An awesome energy imminent here. We bounded forward but one stepped back, and so there was no more trust in our magic and no more faith in our destiny.
Had I better known I would have lived without you, frustrating for sure but without this abysmal loneliness, this cliff overlooking the water, this air to whip [...]
I asked myself “What is a friend?” and was startled by the implications of the answer I gave. A friend is someone who shows that (s)he loves you (trusts you, respects you, whatever your personal criteria is).
Saying “I love you” or “you’re my friend” is easy and thus mostly unimportant. Those words are symbols for [...]
Walter raised his head, dropped his pen, stared from his chair into some empty space. Why this note? Why such a long poem of reasons and justifications, if he was to simply throw it away, to tear himself from the world with a spasm of a trigger finger?
He read back to himself what he had [...]
No, there’s no such thing as somebody who only ever makes you feel happy and complete. Inevitably there’s struggle and friction, life demands it. At love’s autumn these points of contention come into clearer and clearer focus, stinging hints as the relationship descends from its apex into sublunary companionship and then ends.
In light of such [...]
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Humans, like other animals, act to fullfill their desires. Humans are unlike other animals in that they can consciously choose whether or not to pursue a certain desire, for whatever reason they want. They may pursue a set of rules by which to live: a morality.
There is no one overarching morality to which everyone must [...]
Women aren’t happy in the workplace. No shit! Hey ladies, want to give military frontlines a shot too? We gentlemen have plenty of ways to be miserable.
Hypothetically, if a species was subdivided into two roughly equal groups, each with a characteristic set of hormonal chemicals which influence their physical development, temperament, and behavior, you’d assume [...]