To ponder...

Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Which is worse, failing or never trying?
If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Would you break the law to save a loved one?
Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
Why are you, you?
Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
What are you most grateful for?
Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
If not now, then when?
If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

Closeted Submissive

Few know this about you.
It is a huge and well kept secret
You need to be sexually submissive
And surrender yourself to a man.
It overwhelms your mind.

You know you can not do this with the man you are with
Or ones you date.
There is history involved, or
It would disrupt the power dynamics within your relationship, or
It wouldn't be sexy and erotic...
...only awkward.

Day in and day out you need to be in control of your world and life.
It is exhausting, unfulfilling, but necessary.
Too many many battles have been won to relinquish this control.
Your submissive nature becomes your secret.

You are feminine and a woman.
A sexy woman.
A sexual woman.
And you want to feel and hear and see a man's passion.
For you.
And know you bring out this primal animal in him.

With someone new, someone discreet, someone very special
You can.
You share no history.
Only your secret.
He knows this about you.
And you have given him permission to take you.

Take you against a wall
Touch you without reservation.
Instruct you and lead you and tell you what to do
Make you feel like a woman in the ways only a man can.

He softens your edge
By releasing your submissiveness
He doesn't abuse you, only frees you
To express the true sexual you.

Life Was Not Always this Sheltered

My curfew was the street lights- and dad didn't call my cell, he'd yell "time to come home,now! I played outside with friends not online. If I didn't eat what my mom made me then I didn't eat. Hand sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap. And I drank water out of a hose and survived

I Used to Love Him

I remember the exact day I fell in love with ___. Little did I know how much ___ would be a part of my life. __ was young, nieve, confused and sometimes innocent, and sometimes as mischievious as I was.
And as I grew up; __ grew with me, and along the way it took on my baggage, my dreams
I felt __ and __ felt me, and I know everyone who loves the music, feels the same as I do
For many people __ was that first friend, the first to talk to us; the first to understand. __ has always been that kind of friend to me
And like any relationship, I watched it grow, I watched it change. Ever thought you'd see __ grow up? From this up into that.
The union of __ to the mainstream was a hard thing to imagine. __ was always this personal regional thing that belonged to just me. Now anyone could get a piece of __; I knew I was going to have to share- and that was hard to get use to.
___ is my best friend no body believes in you more then I do.
Just when you think you know everything about __, it finds a way to surprise you and remind you why you fell in love in the frst place.
so whats the difference between this and that? It's simple; its like saying you love somebody, and being in love with somebody.
I'm the main person talking about how __ is loosing its way getting in touch with it's roots, getting back to why we fell in love in the first place.
Or is it about forward movement innovate and move on? One minute its how we need this or to stay the same; then the next it's how things need to change. I do want things to change, just don't like how things have changed- and I didn't know this is how it was gonna turn out.
If we look back it'll make us see things; things that we never knew were there before; if we just STOP and find that thing that we know is missing then we can build on that.
I don't know why your heart doesn't do what your mind tells it. I always thought I would outgrow my relationship with __. I never thought it was a fad like many. But I never thought it could grow and mature; I thought it would be an adolescent memory I'd look back on, like a crush on the captain of the football team.
But I realized we had more than that, much more.
We have a history, a friendship, we listen to each other, we laugh together, we finish each others sentences.
I don't have to pretend with __; and he doesn't have to pretend with me.

My feelings have never been more clear; and I know they will never go away.

I used to love, I still do; and always will.
It took me so long because I was scared and hard headed.

My Online Profile

If you read NOTHING on my profile, SKIP TO THE BOTTOM AND READ #7. Save me and yourself the trouble.

Hi! I'm (insert awesome name here) and to be upfront, I am looking to hang out, make friends, date, go out, ect ect with-out commitment. I am not opposed to it, just not actively looking for it. I feel that a great relationship begins with an amazing friendship. Which is something that takes time to develop.

It says to talk about your interests and what nots.... well here it goes!

I am a social work student slated to graduate in a year. I can't wait! Hopefully when I get done I will be going for my Masters degree in nursing after I work for a little while.

I am highly goal driven and once I set my eye on something, people best get outta the way. I have worked hard for everything I have and nothing has been handed to me. I am one of those "get what I want" type of girls.

Outside of school life I enjoy a few activities like spending time with my amazing friends, reading, or playing with my dog.

People will often say that the skin is the bodies larges erogenous organ. (If you don't know what erogenous means, Google it and please don't email me.) I don't tend to agree. For me, it's the brain. Nothing, absolutely nothing appeals to me more than intelligence. You are not required to be Einstein, but you are required to be able to keep up in a conversation with me. Its amazing how many cannot. Nothing between the ears? So sorry, nothing between my legs.

I am horribly blunt and kinda a **** at times. Trust me, that only comes out when someone is repeatedly stupid. I tend to lack a filter between my brain and mouth, what I think pops out more often than not. I have a horribly gross and perverse sense of humor on top of it all.

Speaking of babies, I have a 5 year old Pit Bull and a beautiful kitty that live with me. Oh and 2 snakes. a 6ft Black Pine, and a 3 ft Columbian Red Tail. My dog is firmly believes she is a 5lb lap dog, has severe mommyitis, is brilliant and I rescued her from the streets. My cat is also a rescue, thinks she can talk (and talks a lot) and is a huge attention whore.

Really you should email me because I am just awesome like that. I am never short of intellectual and entertaining conversation or amusing quirks. I love having fun and meeting new people as well as doing or trying new and different things. Plus I have really, really ridiculous stories, all true too. :)

Me = Awesome, You = Awesomeness

Me + You = awesome awesomeness... or.... SUPER AWESOME!

(I have moments where I can be just a tad (understatement) bit retarded, that was one of them. Enjoy!)

I have to add, after a plethora of emails that I:
(This list is getting longer by the day...)
(If your not careful, you may end up on my list...)

1. Do not speak ebonics or engrish and HATE emails with a lack of grammer use.
2. Don't do stupid. Really now? Don't email me with Hey! Wanna F*** because that's going to get you laughed at. Intelligence is the biggest turn on.
3. If your profile states anywhere in it "I hate filling these things out" Seriously. Its ONLINE DATING! If you hate it so much grow a pair and go meet a person somewhere off the internet. It only makes you sound like whiny lil ****.
4. Am not here for your amusement. I am here for mine. I will not text/cyber/webcam or meet you after 2 emails. I will however harass the sh*tout of you for expecting that.
5. I DON'T DO ONE NIGHT STANDS
6. I don't **** stupid
7. If you have never had, are not willing to get, cannot provide or have no IDEA what I mean when I say sexual health paperwork and the different diseases that encompasses.... DO NOT BOTHER EMAILING ME! My vagina is nice and healthy and I like to keep it that way. Not a fan of having an internal petri dish in my pants.
8. Just because #7 is listed does NOT mean I am going to run off and fcuk you just because you have paperwork. It takes more than that to get in my pants.
9. Learn to court a lady. Charm her.
10. 99.999...% of the time I am not interested in ****ing you.
11. Yes, I have a cell phone, yes I have texting, no your not getting my number, no I am not texting you. So please, don't embarrass yourself and save yourself some rejection. If I want your number, I will ask for it.
12. Having a penis (I don't care if it is the size of New Jersey.) does NOT qualify you as "Having what it takes."

Men are like Kleenex

Men are like kleenex... they are there in the box if you require one, when you're done with it you can throw it away; and if you really really require it to kill a spider or something its there waiting for you in the trash :) ~Soliel

Treat Friendship like Lettuce...

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. ~Thich Nhat Hahn

It is my opinion that we in fact, need to think more like this. Instead of placing blame for failure in our personal relationships, why not look inside ourselves, take personal responsibility, and see what we could do to make things better?

Friendships and relationships in general, have long since been compared to a garden. It needs to be tended to. It needs to be weeded, fertilized, watered, and cared for. It takes work to have a healthy relationship. It takes patience, and love. It is often laborious, and rarely easy.

Love and friendship can take many forms. Sometimes, it can come down like lightning, striking everything in its path with electricity. It can make your hair stand on end, and make you feel truly alive with the simplest touch from another. Sometimes it's complicated, and can cause much strife before all is made clear. Sometimes, it floats in like a feather on a gentle wind. It comes in virtually unnoticed, and sits a spell. By the time you realize what is going on, the feather has locked a place inside you that you never really thought possible.

Friendships are much the same way. Sometimes, you meet someone, and there is an instant mesh of personalities and energy, but sometimes, these build slowly, and only with time. You start to talk to a person, and then you talk a little more… all of a sudden, you cannot imagine your life without them. The mere thought of not talking to them each day is almost as if a part of you is dying. It scary, and sad, but at the same time, helps you feel like you are not solitary in this world. The greatest gift that a friend can give is companionship.

Friendship has been said to be a necessity for human existence. It offers us comfort in the face of adversity, but also laughter and tears. It offers us touch, and it offers us a key to the human condition that we cannot go without.

In this modern day society, I know that I can go the majority of my day talking to people, but not saying more than five words aloud. I can tweet, facebook, and myspace have full conversations via instant messaging and text email, but not say anything to another person that is actually in my presence. That fact makes me sad. The art form that is communication has been lost in a technological firestorm, with all of us caught up in its wake. The ability to get a hold of someone at any given time, on any given day, has warped our sense of connection. When was the last time you received a hug that was not from your children or spouse?

For some of us, hugs and human touch outside of our nuclear family come freely, and frequently. However, many many more do not have that experience as their norm. We need to get out of our cubicle lives, and start living in the big world. We need to start expanding on our social circles, and we need to let our guard down and be open to new ideas. We need to find people that share our likes and dislikes, and we need to open ourselves up from our small corner of the universe, and take charge of what we have left. We need a call to arms so to speak to help us battle the emotional disconnect that we have been feeling for so long.

I challenge you this. Next time, when you are out running errands, smile. Be mindful of the look and expression that crosses your face, and smile. Smile at the cashier at the grocery store, the server at the restaurant, the mail carrier. Smile at the bank teller, and the little girl that's in line behind you, bumping into you with a cart. Smile at the old man walking his dog, and smile at the window washer. Let the person stuck in the left lane over. It takes 5 seconds to slow down, and let them over, and wave. It could truly make someone's day easier. Then, I implore you to make eye contact. With the people that pass you in a parking lot, or when someone smiles at you. Make eye contact, and smile. It does not cost a thing, and is virtually painless. All it takes is a millisecond to decide if you are going to do it.

When did we all become so selfish? When did it start being me me me, and a sense of entitlement when we really do not deserve it? When did it become more important for we as a society to not give a shit, and just get out and get ours? What kind of example are we setting for our children?

I, for one, am willing to make a commitment that is this. I am willing to take a stand, and say I will try to no longer see the negative first. I will try to walk into a place, my head held high, and smile. I am willing to try to make eye contact, and hug my friends. I am willing to try, to make emotional connections that will last far more than a single serving.