love and dating
“The thinking part of you can tell you that a decision has been made, but it’s not the part of you which decides things.”
#181 Dear Baby: Am I fit to be a parent?
can someone send this to him??
Like metal cooling in a new shape, your expression, posture, even the cadence of your speech start to carry the imprint of the one who sees you.
maja • Some Parts of You Only Emerge for Certain People
Love asks for heat. Left cold, we harden into our existing shape. But under the steady warmth of attention, we soften, loosen, and take on new form. The right gaze reorganises the self; you begin to recognise yourself more clearly in their eyes, and they in yours. Each becomes more singular by being seen, a longing to inhabit the silhouette cast by... See more
maja • Some Parts of You Only Emerge for Certain People
Sarah Kay performs "Table Games"
youtube.comA great relationship is not only finding the person you have fun with, but also finding the person you want to be bored with. The beauty of long-term relationships is often hidden in boring, ordinary moments.
3-2-1: The key to great relationships, the will to achieve, and beauty as a guiding principle
Something can surprise us because it excites wonder, or because it is new or unexpected… Our soul often experiences pleasure when it feels something it cannot analyse, or when an object appears quite different from what it knows it to be.
— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld [pg. 50]
Love embraces slowness, likely even demands it. So why are we all in such a rush?