For the first time in a long time, I miss having a romantic life.
Sunday night at 2 a.m. was the peak for the Perseid meteor shower.
Laying on my back on a blanket on a slightly slanted bit of ground, smelling the insect repellant and listening to the crickets and tree toads, the shooting stars came pretty fast in astronomic terms, more than one a minute.
You get out in the country on a clear night like last night and there are a LOT of stars. Bunches.
Not much moon to compete and the city lights pretty far off, it was plenty dark to see a few real spectacular ones — big and slow as well as little and very fast.
Sure would have been nice to have someone to share.
Then again, if I’d had female company, don’t know if I’d heard the tree toads and seen so many meteors.
But, I thought about how nice it would have been to have someone to talk to and hold hands with.
If you’ve got a partner, they’ll happen again Monday night. Look in the NE sky.
Like the man said: watch the sky.
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Relationships are usually based on attachment. Attachment can engender possessiveness, selfishness, greed, jealousy and encourage a false sense of having, e.g. “my boyfriend”, “my wife”, etc. I am beginning to see only the healthiest of souls can really handle a life companion. Our society is too disposable and we are programmed around that idea. Now, if companionship is provided in a truly supportive environment for human growth, encouraging a loving, realistic regard for each other’s individuality and really has true responsibility and maturity, then it might work. But how many people do you know have the ability and selflessness to work with those concepts?
I finally had to admit this year that sex (and romance) has held me back from a more wholehearted pursuit of what I perceive as the only worthy goal in life – serenity. In other words, at least for now, I’d rather seek ‘enlightenment’ than get laid.
As Nathanial Brandon so beautifully put it……………”No one is coming.”
Wouldn’t the latter of dzaster’s relationship description (companionship providing a truly supportive environment for human growth, etc), be a nice thing to experience, as well as give to another?
What a rare thing this must be, love that is all grown up and everything.