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lake posted an update in the group Your Experiments 12 years, 1 month ago

My Second Love –

I was 21, in grad school, 6% body fat, and poor as a church mouse. I lived in a rented room in an apartment with three girls. I had a mattress and a stack of books in my room. Some clothes in the closet, not much else. I worked in a lab 9 to 5 part paid, part sponsorship doing research for my thesis. I took classes from 6 to…[Read more]

Mallory replied 12 years, 1 month ago

When we were young and living with little, and by the same token, living without many obligations, we had the freedom to love like we have never been hurt. Our youth did not necessarily give us the wisdom to hold that trust dear, or the strength to withstand the crushing burden of evolving duties on love and desire.
- lake replied 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  Oh to keep on loving… Hard and full and unbridled
Alix James replied 12 years, 1 month ago

I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. It is absolutely the truth that love and desire do evolve profoundly over time and with familiarity and that the duties increase as well and often seem to become a burden (and sometimes a crushing one)!

But that is really where I have struggled most in my own life…that is what has frustrated me the…[Read more]
- lake replied 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  There is so much here that I would love to respond directly to, but I will just say relative to what you wrote, I do think you are on to a profound point. One that is very counter to conventional thinking ( and we all know how successful that is).
  
  I think love and desire are fundamental aspects of our being and biology. I think in their native…[Read more]

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