Do oposites attract?

[Hermes]

A lot of it around Wolf. Instability.

 

Just Google it and there is a vast amount of writing on the topic.

 

Meantime:

 

"Start as someone who loves with above-average intensity. Fall so in love with people and with things that you forget to eat and sleep. Stay up all night reading a certain book or listening to a certain song or gazing into a certain person's eyes or just pacing back and forth thinking about whatever it is you can't stop thinking. Know what it's like to lose all control over the operation of your mind. See abyssal profundity where others see only surface. Experience moments in which the whole universe seems to close in around you and your head feels like an astrolabe and you feel the entire concentric cosmos click together into one unified image of perfect beauty and harmony and all you want to do is hold it in your mind forever and fall down on your knees and worship it.

 

Start to see this image more and more frequently, often at inopportune moments. Feel its beauty morph slowly but inexorably into terror. Start looking for ways to drown it out; settle on booze and drugs and deafening music. Go to bed every night drunk enough to pass out immediately, but then wake at 5am, feel it bearing down upon you once again, press your face into your pillow, and weep with fear.

 

Slide into the dark period you knew was coming. Go for months feeling okay only when you're asleep. Open your eyes every morning just in time to feel the okay-ness seep out of you like blood from a stab-wound. Stop checking your email because you know it will just be your friends asking you if you're okay, and you don't want to admit that you really aren't but know they won't believe you if you lie and say you are. Stop showering because it seems like too much effort to undress. Step outside on the first beautiful day of spring and think absently about how it does nothing for you. Feel like everything is impossible; feel like doing anything at all would require a greater suspension of disbelief than you are capable of. Feel burning itches in places like the lining of your stomach and the backsides of your retinas."

 

 

Maybe this was why you were so quick to fall in love with everything in sight; maybe you sensed instinctively the overflowing fullness of all things too soon, before you were ready to grasp their interior complexity. Maybe when you were in love with things, what you were really in love with was not the things themselves but rather something inside them that you could never quite get at, which was why you loved them with such annihilating desperation, as if throwing yourself over and over against a locked door.

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What I do notice from the many threads on this board is that many people seem to be drawn to the impossible, the unmanageable, the plain crazy.

[sky09]

Try to not put labels on people (aka stereotypes) and instead try to find out who they really are. Easy as that...

[Lucia Amman]

I've a friend who is a politician and although she never lets it get in the way with her friends, I couldn't imagine her dating someone who doesn't has a clue or shows some political interest.

 

And I agree with fudgie, it says a lot about how you view money, socioeconomic classes and world issues. That said, I never discussed politics in the beginning of mine relationship but you can somewhat guess where someone is based on their core values. I think if someone is on the opposite end you'll notice that your core values vary way too much too?? At least that is what's my experience thus far.

[Hermes]

Mmmm. Core values.

 

 

 

Love this one, lol.

 

 

 

"

Paranormal Beliefs Test

Do you believe in monsters, karma, ghosts or? How about telekinesis, UFOs, aliens and other paranormal activity? Take the Paranormal Beliefs Test to check your superstitions and supernatural beliefs."

 

and

 

 

"Shopaholic Test

Are you a shopaholic? Do you go for a little retail therapy or is it a full-blown compulsive shopping addiction? Take the Shopaholic Test to find out if your impulsive shopping is a real addiction!"

[Itchy]

I don't think having a political views says a lot about how someone views money, how some views social class or how someone views the world stage. Politics is a lot more fluid than theories or people like to admit. The term "champagne socialist" exists for a reason.

 

I don't want to go down the road of political discussion, but I do think people would be far happier if they kept views such as politics out of the equation they'd probably have an easier time relating to people. People are more than just their political affiliation.

[Hermes]

Dead right Itchy.

 

"People are more than just their political affiliation."

 

There is a good reason why political discussion is kept off this board. And a good reason why it should be kept away from the dinner table.