Phoenix Rising wrote:
But... WE all kinda DO...

Continue on with your internal excuses and made up realities. There IS an objective reality and your failure, along with several others, to recognize same will take you right where you are; need to be; and are gonna stay stuck until you open your eyes and SEE. Most seem to already be dead; walking penises with a singular focus.
24% of the US population has never married. And yet at the same time •Percentage of people who have ever been married by the age of 55: Both males and females: 95%

Still •Percentage of population that is married: 59% and WE add •Percentage of remarriages that end in divorce in 1997: 60-70% . So, it's all just a numbers game.
As an aging hippy, as I've noted several times over the years, I've had the good fortune of living with women, coming close to marriage each time, and then backing away from it once the "business discussion" came into play. One can have significant relationships and at the same time f u c k whores. However, as one ages, the availability of the "free piece" wans. And there is nothing more validating in life than a woman GIVING you a piece. If one chooses to believe they're going to be given a piece up until the day the die, one is an utter fool. Well, perhaps if one has no standards of decency it could be possible, but even then, I rather suspect not.
Of course, for those of us walking around in our EyetallionLeatherJacket with fashion statement goggles, things may be different. However, I'm asserting it is not. The person or persons so peacocked out and simply fooling themselves....that were they capable of looking inside their being, they'd find a pretty shallow pool of nothingness.
"...They spend the first sixty years of their lives in a place which had
been stuck in the eternal mud and dust and wrapped all around so tightly
with the earth of a continent that it takes several decades for a new
idea to filter through to the people and several more decades for them to
decide whether or not the new idea (which is old then) is sinful or not.
They spend their lives working for a living and living that living in the
future--and then they come back after six months from Miami or Long Beach
saying: Well, it's just fine there, but home's best--after all..."

And EyeTallion Leather Jacket with Fashion Statement Goggles (to be forever young?):
You take Parker's lyrics out of context which I quote here:
I don't know what's behind that veil
I ask questions to no avail
I don't know why there's empty shelves
Empty books and silent bells
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know why it's not enough
To feel moments of mighty love
I can't think why I'm not fulfilled
I don't know why my heart is chilled
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know why I'm all alone
Fingers stuck to a telephone
Photographs of you and me
I don't know these people I see
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
Balls bouncing down deserted streets
Shadows boxing on empty seats
I don't know why it's not enough
To feel moments of mighty love
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
It was and has been a luxury to experience those moments of mighty love and experience them I have. Have you, or have your moments been fraught with noise and simplicity; beige to beige years of comedy which had no real emotion behind them? Of course one must first be wired to be capable of having those feelings and methinks the bulk who post are not so wired....a select handful are and have also experienced those "....moments of mighty love...." and I dare say they themselves cannot explain why simply having had the luxury to experience them was not enough. Much like Roxy Music....."Love is the drug and I need to score" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKE140xf8c ) It's all pretty damn relative.
