Extreme1's blog: "Blog, blah blah"

Okay, so I lied. I had to come back and make one last post.....you know, the most fun that I have had on cherrytap was going thru and removing each person individually from my friends/fan list. It took sometime, and yet it was quite satisfying. Kinda like spring cleaning. I feel refreshed, lol. Ahhhhhhh, who am I kidding....no one is going to care, no one will miss my presence, it will be as if I were never hear....but that is only because you never took the time to know me. Hell, many of you added me as a friend without ever even stopping by my page to view my profile...now thats just rude, no matter where your from. Again, I don't care...I didn't meet anyone to make me care. Blah, blah, blah.........

Well, this is my second and final blog posting on cherrytap. I have found this site rather useless and quite frankly distracting. I thought it might be a good place to meet new people and share conversation. However, it has turned out to be a place more about points and pictures and contests, rather than social interaction. I find it dull, and unworthy of my time. I would say that I will miss the people that I have met here, but I have not truly spoken to anyone here for more than a few minutes. Not due to a lack of want on my side. So, have your fun with your points accumulations and contest entering, and mindless picture surfing. Me, I am going out and have some fun......Funny, I doubt anyone will actually read this post...but I don't really care.

I have been thinking about love lately. More importantly the question of the love relationship, which is one of the aching questions of our time. It came for me from personal experience, like most of us have. But also just looking at people there seems to be no way of understanding what it means to love and stay in love--to stay with love. We all understand about falling in love. We all understand the passion. But [there is this] whole idea of what it means to maintain a relationship. Everybody I know is suffering in one way or another from that. So my question was: "Can the great teachings of the world throw light on that?" And when I looked at them, all the great ideas about divine love and spiritual love, they didn't really throw that kind of light on that. There was still something unrealistic in them. I'm a human being. I'm not a saint. We have bodies, we have needs. At the same time, we don't want to just have a life that is passively enslaved by our passing desires and physical needs and ego. So it seemed to me that there must be something in between, some intermediate bridge. And to me it became very clear, and it's not anything you will find explicitly in the great traditions nor in any of the psychological or philosophical literature that I know of. They are seekers. And what human love can be with two people together is to somehow support each other's search. To me that became like a revelation. That was where the bridge was. It wasn't saintly love. It wasn't just merely physical or egoistic love, but to love another person, to support their search for meaning in some way. And that was what I suddenly realized I wanted and what I wanted to explore. Okay, I think that I should lay of the booze for a bit and get the f@ck out. But let me end this with a great quote from one of my favorites. "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen,