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Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.
When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said,
“Richness, can you take me with you?”
Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.”
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. “Vanity, please help me!”
“I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat.” Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by, so Love asked, “Sadness, let me go with you.”
“Oh… Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!”
Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I will take you.” It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Realizing how much was owed the elder, Love asked Knowledge, another elder, “Who Helped me?”
“It was Time.” Knowledge answered.
“Time?” asked Love. “But why did Time help me?”
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, “Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is. “
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge and all of the others, including Love. One day, it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left, except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.
When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, “Richness, can you take me with you?” Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.”
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. “Vanity, please help me!” “I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat,” Vanity answered.
Sadness was closed by, so Love asked, “Sadness, Let me go with you.” “Oh… Love, I am so sad that I need to be myself!”
Happiness passed by Love, too. But she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I will take you.” It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own away.
Realizing how much was owed the elder, Love asked Knowledge, another elder, “Who helped me?”
“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.
“Time?” asked Love. “But why did Time help me?”
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, “Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is.”
Kissing is fun. Most of us think so, at least. The fact that we’re deliberately choosing to swap saliva, germs, and whatever may be leftover from our romantic partner’s fettuccine alfredo is one of those uniquely human pastimes that’s gross in premise, but wonderful in practice — most of the time, anyway
Kissing is a universally recognized part of the gladiator pit single people like to call dating, and an essential part of the courtship ritual. For evidence: Only 10 percent of cultures around the world don’t kiss. And some primates, likes chimps and bonobos, are known to lock lips as well, although with a bit less finesse than their hairless human relatives.
Behavioral scientists have floated all kinds of theories for why humans regularly indulge in the awkward act of locking mouths. One of the more prevalent theories suggests kissing helps us assess the long-term genetic potential of future mates and allows us to sniff their pheromones. More obviously: Kissing also helps with arousal, which helps ensure the enduring survival of the human race. And it may even help those in deeply committed relationships stay together in the long run.
That last bit may be the most important revelation from a new study from the University of Oxford, which has a bit more canonical evidence for why we kiss each other. “Mate choice and courtship in humans is complex,” said Robin Dunbar, a neuroscience researcher and co-author of the study. “It involves a series of periods of assessments where people ask themselves ‘shall I carry on deeper into this relationship?'”
For this study, published in two parts in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior and in the journal Human Nature, the team step up an online questionnaire and queried 900 adults about the importance of kissing in both short-term and long-term relationships. The answers, primarily from the U.S. and the U.K., provided some some key insights
“Men are more likely to initiate kissing before sex, when it might be used for arousal purposes,” the authors wrote, “whereas women are more likely to initiate kissing after sex, where it might better serve a relationship maintenance function.”
In short-term relationships, participants noted that kissing was more important “before sex, less so during sex, [and] was less important again after sex.”
But perhaps the biggest and most useful takeaway from the survey was this: That lots of kissing was associated with a satisfying and ultimately healthy long-term relationship. Oddly enough, the same couldn’t be said about couples that merely had lots of sex. “There seems to be something special about kissing,” co-author Rafael Wlodarski told NPR. Indeed. Smooch away.
His parents divorced when he was young and he didn’t think that true love was able to survive in today’s world.
He was proven wrong.
His grandparents were always supportive to the kids and tried to help them when their parents divorced. He knew they loved each other, he just wasn’t sure it was true love. He had never heard them say, “I love you” or show any affection other than hugging. They had been married for over fifty years and he thought that their true love was gone.
But again he was wrong. His grandfather, Ralph, was struck ill in his junior year of college and he didn’t know how serious it was until he fell and hurt his hip. While in the hospital, the doctors found out a tumor in his lungs. They told him that he had lung cancer and due to previous illnesses, they could not operate and he was too weak for chemotherapy.
It was around Thanksgiving Day and by Christmas his condition worsened. The cancer spread and in late January his sister away at college too, called him crying and said she was on her way home because the doctors told our family that their grandfather had only a week to live, that by the weekend he would no longer be with them. Their family came in from around the country and stayed next to his side.
It was there he realized that true love does exist today and will survive beyond death. Every night as his grandfather grew more fragile, he would whisper sweet words to grandmother, Madge. The night before he died, grandmother was walking out of his room and he said to her “I love you Madge baby”.
The next morning he received a phone call at work that grandfather had passed during the night. Throughout his short battle with cancer, he realized how much two people can love each other and he realized how much it means to be loved and give love. It is the greatest gift on earth and it lasts beyond life because you never forget your one true love.
Don’t you wish there was a small trick or two that could make you more attractive to the opposite sex? It turns out there are plenty.
We combed through some recent scientific studies to find personal grooming tips, dietary changes and other fixes that are proven to make you more attractive.
Go for a ride…on a roller coaster.
Take your date or someone you want to be romantically involved with on a roller coaster.
A study from earlier last year revealed that roller coaster riders found their non-romantic co-riders more attractive after a whip around the track, according to The Daily Mail.
There was no difference for couples who were already romantically linked, so this trick only works with potential partners.
Eat your fruits and vegetables for glowing skin.
Eating more fruits and vegetables is a natural way to make your skin look more attractive, a study from PLoS ONE showed.
The redness and yellowness of skin in white people may be linked to the number of servings of fruit and vegetables they eat daily, the study showed. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with antioxidants and plant-based pigments, which seem to give skin a healthy hue.
Better yet, the results are instant. Participants in the study had rosier cheeks and healthier looking skin with just an increase of one portion of fruit and vegetables a day.
Keep those teeth pearly white
A study confirmed the obvious, that a white and evenly spaced set of teeth make people seem more attractive.
The study, from researchers at the British universities of Leeds and Central Lancashire, found that teeth are “the human equivalent of a peacock’s tail,” according to The Daily Mail.
They are a sign of health and good genetics that help select a mate.
Women should keep red lipstick handy.
Ladies, pick up some red lipstick next time you’re at the drug store.
A woman’s lips are the most attractive part of her body, especially when colored with red lipstick, a study from the Manchester University revealed.
The study found that men stared at a woman’s lips for seven full seconds when they were colored red. In comparison, they spent just 0.95 seconds looking at her eyes and 0.85 seconds gazing at her hair.
Play dumb (but only if you’re looking for a fling)
This one pains us to write. But ladies, if you’re looking for a one-night stand, it’s best to play it stupid.
In a study recently published in Evolution and Human Behavior, graduate students at the University of Texas–Austin found that that men were most attracted to women who appeared “dimwitted- or immature,” or “sleepy or intoxicated” for a one-night stand.
Women who appeared quick-witted and lucid, on the other hand, were found less physically attractive.
Thankfully, the opposite was true when men were seeking long-term partners.
Ladies—smile!
Ladies, a simple smile will help a guy find you more attractive.
Happiness is the most attractive emotion in females, a study called “Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction” from Emotion showed.
Guys—brood a little more.
Brooding and swaggering men are much more attractive than men who are smiling, according to a recent study from the University of British Columbia. In fact, the women surveyed said happiness was the least attractive quality in a man.
The study could explain why some women are attracted to the “bad boy” persona.
And shave those beards.
Women did not rate men with have bearded faces as more attractive in a recent study in the Oxford Journal.
The study found that men with beards were seen as more aggressive and of a higher social-status, but not better looking.
Take a deep breath and relax
Women find less-stressed men substantially more attractive than their more-stressed out rivals, a study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal found.
The study’s researchers concluded that men with low stress levels are more attractive, because handling a stressful situation suggests having a “strong” genetic makeup and that can be passed on to children.
Play hard to get
In another odd turn of human behavior, a study in Psychological Science showed that women found a man more attractive when she wasn’t sure how strongly he felt about her, as opposed to when she was certain he was very interested in her.
The study found that women started thinking about a man more when she was uncertain if he really liked her or not. Then, she would conclude she liked him since she couldn’t “get this guy out of her head.”
Overall, the study suggested that if men hold back some of their feelings at the very beginning, and create some mystery, he’ll be more likely to hook a member of the opposite sex.
I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forest and mountains with honey-coloured light, at sea where it rises and sets like a blood orange in a multi-coloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out of the vast ocean.
I have seen a thousand moons: harvest moons like gold coins; winter moons as white as ice chips; new moons like baby swans’ feathers.
I have seen a thousand moons: harvest moons like gold coins; winter moons as white as ice chips; new moons like baby swans’ feathers.
I have felt winds straight from the South Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child; winds as tender and warm as a lover’s breath; winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of seaweeds; winds that carried the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a million flowers; fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast; or winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten.
I have known silence: the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends.
I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones.
I have heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach, singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies.
I have seen Whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea, creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath.
I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun irons their swings smooth.
I have watched tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.
I have been dive-bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as a Devil’s hoof.
I have lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a host of Dolphins.
I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things. All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips, body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting quarry in which it is my privilege to delve.
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me.
They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, ‘I love you’ is too luxurious for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of the question.
Finally my father has a bad temper. When he’s very tired from the hard work, it is easy for him to lose his temper.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat down beside her and looked at her.
‘Mom, I have a question to ask you,’ I said after a while.
‘What?’ she replied, still doing her work.
‘Is there love between you and Dad?’ I asked her in a very low voice.
My mother stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn’t answer immediately. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was in a great embarrassment and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:
‘Susan,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘Look at this thread.Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is inside.’
I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her until the next spring.
At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.
When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness.
After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road.
My father had never been so gentle. It seemed they were the most harmonious couple.
Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees.
The sun gently glistened through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world.
The doctor had said my father would recover in two months. But after two months he still couldn’t walk by himself. All of us were worried about him.
‘Dad, how are you feeling now?’ I asked him one day.
‘Susan, don’t worry about me.’ he said gently. ‘To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.’ Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm..
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