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I
think honesty is the hardest thing to
ever find in the world.
People
who display it should be honored and rewarded, but more often than not
are abused and subjugated by the rest. I can't count the number
of
times someone has looked me in the lie and told me that I could trust
them. It is not usually a true statement. Somewhere in my mind, a
counter clicks to the next higher number when someone I know tells a
lie. Each time the number goes up, my ability to have faith in
what
they say goes down a little. I have acquaintances who don't know
it,
but have been in a deficit years. If it ever comes up in
conversation,
I'll tell them so, and why. Honesty, after all, must be adhered
to by
all sides.
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| Love |
I
believe that all things are temporary in life, even love. Because
of
that, we should give as much of
ourselves as we can while we are able,
and accept the fact of change when it all comes to an end.
I rarely look backward. Where I have already been will shape me
for the rest of my life, but the parts which are yet to come contain
new adventures.
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| The
Golden Rule |
This is really the only law that mankind
should require. If we all stop for a moment, and look at
the other side of the picture, consider how our reactions would be, if
the situation were reversed-- The world would be both happier and
fulfilling.
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My last name is Golden. In my late teens, I realized that the
only way to stop the mindless form-filler-outs was to come up with a
way to make "golden" impossible to confuse with "golder" Goldy"
"Golde", and a million other forms of I wasn't paying attention.
What I settled on was: "Name?" "Golden, just like the rule". It works.
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But think. The golden rule is the concept of total unity, expressed in
a single sentence. If you need, someone will give. If you
see someone who needs what you can spare, give it to them. Regardless of our race, creed, religion,
gender, career, sexual preference, hair color, or height, we are all in
this together, and it would behoove us to play as a team.
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| Sexuality |
I
define myself as a lesbian trapped in
a man's body. This is not a facetious remark. I am
more comfortable sitting in a room full of women, listening to the
drama and woe, than in a room with other guys, watching a game and
doing that male bonding mumbo-jumbo stuff. I am not a gay man. If anything, I am more than straight-
Superstraight, if you will. The female half of our species
is magical and beautiful, each one uniquely built and wired for sight
and sound. I can't comprehend ever choosing standing around
the TV set, slapping my best guy friends on the ass, and watching more
of the same hop into Alpha-male dog piles on the screen. But let
me tell you guys a little secret: I'm the fellow who gets to hang with
the girls when it's ladies' night, the guy who knows even the things
they're not telling their men. ENVY
ME!, or have pity.
Aside from being decidedly heterosexual, I have no sexual
inhibitions. I'm not even
homophobic.. my view is that there more gay men there are, the
more single women there will be. I don't even mind a threesome
with another male, as long as it is understood that I will neither
touch nor be touched. Women love to be loved by two men at once; it
allows them to more fully experience every touch and tickle. Everyone is entitled to be who they truly
are.
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Different relationships have always had different ground rules. Each time two people form a union, it will
be different from every other one they've ever had, and should
be treated as such.
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I've lived my
fantasies.
In time, I have come to realize that almost every woman I have ever
dated on a regular basis was either bisexual, or bi-curious. For
the longest time, I considered it just a harmless perversion of my own,
but on careful consideration, I think that is merely another facet of
my claim of being lesbian in a man's body: I have enough female in my
psychological profile that I prefer other women who might be attracted
to that. More to the point, since that is the type of woman I
attract, it must be a shared sense, and communicated at a subconscious
level. I love the psychology of sex. What to say and where to touch, and
how to whisper nothing much into the hollow of her ear.
The experience should always be as much mental as it is emotional and
physical. This is a whole-body workout designed by millions of
years of evolution for our procreating pleasure.
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Greed
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Lack
of this trait is why I will go to my grave a pauper.
I have no desire to have
more than everyone else, to carry more cash, drive a bigger, pimpier
car, or wear the most expensive brand of sneakers. I have
tried to muster up some enthusiasm for those things in the past, but
the truth is, I don't care. I only want to pay my bills, and have
some time to spend doing what I like to do, not wasting it all away to
pay for things that are only passing to begin with. I realize
that in our modern society, this equates to a sociological fault.
It makes maintaining my position in life difficult, because just
maintaining requires a constant progression, and I have a lot of
trouble
wanting more than what I have.
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Much of the ill and
ignorance of the world can be traced directly to greed.
It is, indeed, the ultimate source of almost all evil; theft and murder
and rape and yes, even depression and drug addiction. Greed
forces those who can't get ahead of the game to feel inferior, and that
in turn leads to minor mental breakdowns casting the person into
various zones of psychosis. If I don't give a hoot what you have,
it won't hurt my feelings when i don't have it as well. Greed is
the anti-thesis to the Golden Rule. It is impossible to show
greed and still live under the philosophy of
"Do unto others as you would have
them do unto you."
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