Sight O' Delight....

a:"Look at it"
b:"I know, it fits, perfectly. I mean this is unbelievable"
c:"And there was the school of thought that this was humanly impossible"

a:"Haha, I can safely say, that school is now defunct"
b:"Brevity is sometimes a strange phenomenon"
c:"Yeah sure, but when its this perfect, its not a phenomenon"

a:"Long tail economics?"
b:"A bit of that may be"
c:"Come on now, is analysing it and assigning a theory of reasoning really necessary?"

a:"I guess not"
b:"Especially since the school's defunct !"
c:"Touche`!!!"

a:"A sight o' delight, indeed"
b:"That's cheesy, but, yes, indeed"
c:"Indeed !!"

Bliss

bliss - [blis]

-supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment

The need to belong

"A hypothesized need to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships is evaluated in light of the empirical literature. The need is for frequent, nonaversive interactions within an ongoing relational bond. Consistent with the belongingness hypothesis, people form social attachments readily under most conditions and resist the dissolution of existing bonds. Belongingness appears to have multiple and strong effects on emotional patterns and on cognitive processes. Lack of attachments is linked to a variety of ill effects on health, adjustment, and well-being. Other evidence, such as that concerning satiation, substitution, and behavioral consequences, is likewise consistent with the hypothesized motivation. Several seeming counterexamples turned out not to disconfirm the hypothesis. Existing evidence supports the hypothesis that the need to belong is a powerful, fundamental, and extremely pervasive motivation."

(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

Authors: Baumeister, Roy F.; Leary, Mark R.
Affiliations: Baumeister,Roy F.: Case Western Reserve U, Dept of Psychology, Cleveland, OH, US

Source: Psychological Bulletin. 1995 May Vol 117(3) 497-529

Grains of Sand

Soft and Gentle, grains of sand
Oh how I want to hold you, in my hand

The more I grip, the more you slip

I want you to see
That we are meant to be

But the more I grip, the more you slip

So I decided to let you go
If you really love me, I will know

and with the breeze we shall elope.

Inspired by DCH

Sharing ..

The bond between two people in love is quite amazing. Sometimes opposites do attract, sometimes its the opposite. But for two people to enjoy the same things together at the same level, that is something worth living for.

To know that when you are playing tennis or going for a jog or on a beach, both are there because this what they like doing and not just there, merely to be with the other or to spend time with the other or because one person likes it and the other person wants to see the other happy.

It is when both enjoy it and the fact they are together while they do things they would enjoy individually, that compounds the joy and happiness.

Busy Lives

The busy lives we lead leave us little time to ever so subtly suggest that special affection you share with someone. Affection means something. There is something about the person you like. Sometimes, its just friendship, a sharing of attitudes and experiences. A matching of the mindsets. Sometimes its more than that. Sometimes there is a possibility that affection could be more than just. It could mean that this is the person you look forward to seeing after working 12 hour days. Because just a glimpse and life makes sense. Just a few words shared and life is no longer a rat race. A warm gentle embrace and time stands still and that is all you want to come home to for as long as you work, play or do nothing.

That embrace gives meaning to an otherwise meaningless life.

What is it about holding hands, walking on the beach ?

Walking hand in hand, in to the sunset. It's neither about the sunset, nor the golden sandy shores of the pacific, nor the gentle breeze, nor the calmness of it all. It is the feeling of being there, holding hands, feeling the heartbeat, breathing in the heavy air of the ocean shore and knowing if there was ever happiness, then this be it. This happiness is not to die for, it is to start living.