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aliljaded 53F
23942 posts
6/22/2023 7:00 am
~Life

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— Louise Erdrich, from The Painted Drum (HarperPerennial, 2005)


"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


rydermantel 69M
25890 posts
6/25/2023 10:29 pm

Nobody ever said it would be a cakewalk.


likeithot19 62M
6112 posts
6/22/2023 8:56 am

When one realizes one is surrounded by life, and one is just a part of it... one's view on loneliness changes...


BrawnyDaddy 68M
8 posts
6/22/2023 8:20 am

Yes, very true to some extent. However, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Loneliness is a real bitch, and that's for sure but to be happy being alone makes it easier to love someone else! Yes some men are hunters. And some are not so much! Those not so much get themselves emaalsciltaed!


bdsmDOMdaddy 61M
4223 posts
6/22/2023 7:56 am

life needs to be experienced the good the bad the fugly the wonderful the mundane everyday is different & brings you different opportunities thou having companion someone special to live love laugh thru it all is what makes life tolerable content sweet!


uncommon1 66M  
1472 posts
6/22/2023 7:32 am

It is the being broken,
that makes you stronger.
You see life as breaking
you . . I see life as making
you stronger.


flasherwatcher68 56M

6/22/2023 7:29 am

Very true - in fact isolation is worse because it gradually removes your humanity.

Beautfil pics too


aliljaded 53F
8965 posts
6/22/2023 7:01 am



"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”



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