INTIMACY: PROMPT
This Is Why We Pursue Intimacy
The secret of sustaining the love is keeping the mystery
If you love a person, you say to that person, Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I’ve seen quite a bit of it and I know there’s lots that I haven’t seen, but still it’s you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won’t be happy if I’ve got you in a cage. You’d be a bird without song.
— Alan Watts
What do you want?
I’m asking the same question again for a gazillion times.
It’s not that I don’t have the answers, it’s just that every time I got around to asking, I’ve not been serious enough to get to the root. And so once again I find myself in another episode of heartbreak and disappointment.
Relationships are touchy subjects. What’s there not to love about Love? I don’t care how many times you’ve been down this road, the moment Love rears its ugly head, you’ll want to plunge right in headfirst. Don’t lie. It’s dangerously appealing. It’s complicating, the bliss and delight, the fear of letting go too much…
