What Are the Greatest Things?

[austintorn@aol.com]

I am eating ice cream along the lakefront with a cute researcher and am wondering what the greatest things are. Of course, necessities count, too, for we need sleep every day, food, at least some per day or two, and water, but what else is next or just great for life to live and prosper and enjoy?

[sillysally]

You remind me of a boy that liked me in high school. He took me out for ice cream, a joint and a long drive out on country roads. He said that and being with a cute girl is one of the greatest things to do.

Unfortunately he turned into a Jesus freak, got married at the age of 18, had 5 kids, ran into me at the mall with his wife and family saw I was a single mom and made a nasty comment about me taking advantage of the welfare system. I think he forgot about the pleasure I once gave him.

[r.p.bibra]

Pleasure and joy are fake for those who have experienced love. love is the greatest 'thing' in life, only we have to manifest it in our hearts..love&regards.ls.

[Mikal]

You remind me of a boy that liked me in high school. He took me out for ice cream, a joint and a long drive out on country roads. He said that and being with a cute girl is one of the greatest things to do.

Unfortunately he turned into a Jesus freak, got married at the age of 18, had 5 kids, ran into me at the mall with his wife and family saw I was a single mom and made a nasty comment about me taking advantage of the welfare system. I think he forgot about the pleasure I once gave him.

I like you sillysally...your just so darn genuinely honest in your posts its somewhat refreshing and inspirational to meet a person who feels no need to dress their life moments with an elequent robe...with you it is what it is at the moment and I think thats to be true to life's tendency to be precarious with us at the best of times...


Mikal

[Mikal]

I'm the researcher eating icecream along the waterfront with this fascinating computer compositor. I'm not paying too much attention to the crazy delicious icecream but of course holding hands is always little heart conversations only two listening hearts can understand...affection in all its passages is alot like how the breeze plays little whirlpool moments on the surface of the water and then the loon cries out across the lake stirring the listener to the simple joy and pleasure of several spent moments...

smiles Mikal

[analog]

What are the greatest things?

A pair of socks…when my feet are cold.
A bed…when my body is tired.
A purpose…when my life needs meaning.
A passion…when my struggles need a direction.
A friend…when my soul is lonely.
A lover…when I’m cold, tired, confused, and hopelessly lost, all alone.

[austintorn@aol.com]

You are the researcher, Mikal, and thus have a keen eye for detail, like the whirlpools. It seems like whirlpools made all there is, from spinning neutrons to galaxies to love feeding back and whirling through hearts.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Sally, your post says it all: nature, a friend, adventure, and love all rolled into one, then perhaps some food, then sleep—as then all combined give the greatest thing of all.

Too bad the guy couldn't stay young at heart.

[austintorn@aol.com]

r.p.bibra,

Love comes first and so then it's pleasure and joy are real as well as any other pleasure and joy forthcoming (in the name of love) is real and not fake as would be as when sensation is only for sensation's sake.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Good to wear two layers of socks, analog, for more comfort and warmth. That's what I do for tennis.