Comments on: Taking a shower http://johnrlong.com/2007/08/13/taking-a-shower/ I just blather on and on about stuff that interests me, mostly politics and sex and sometimes movies and art. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: nina http://johnrlong.com/2007/08/13/taking-a-shower/#comment-351 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:13:36 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/08/13/taking-a-shower/#comment-351 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.

]]> By: dzaster http://johnrlong.com/2007/08/13/taking-a-shower/#comment-350 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:05:14 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/08/13/taking-a-shower/#comment-350 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.”

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