// Adultery // 12.09.16
Smile: a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.
Be kind, while there's still time.
The rational mind disappears again and I’m grateful, but if you stayed this way forever you couldn't live in this world.
It’s completely useless, but it was a bargain
Tourists get closer and take photos that will come out poorly lit. Wouldn’t it be easier to just buy a postcard?
I have visited many monuments around the world, many of mighty men whose names are long forgotten, but who will remain eternally mounted on their beautiful horses. Of women holding their crowns or swords to the sky; symbolising victories that no longer appear even in textbooks. With very few exceptions, in the end, a city’s landmarks aren't its statues, but unexpected things. When Eiffel built a steel tower for the world’s fair, he never dreamed it would wind up being the symbol of Paris. An apple represents New York. A not so crowded bridge is the symbol of San Francisco. Another bridge, this one over the Tagus dominates the picture postcards of Lisbon. Barcelona has an unfinished cathedral as its most emblematic monument.
Nature, nurture or Nietzsche?
Our body is made almost entirely of water, through which electrical charges pass, communicating information. One such piece of information is called love, and it can interfere with the entire organism.
Love isn’t just a feeling, it’s an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration, but a lot of work.
The big problem is that people believe what they see in books and movies - the couple that strolls along the beach holding hands, gazes at the sunset, and makes passionate love every day in nice hotels overlooking the Alps. My husband and I have done all that, but the magic lasts one or two years at most. After three years of marriage, a person already knows exactly what the other wants and thinks. At dinner parties we are obliged to listen to the same stories we’ve heard time and time again, always feigning surprise and, occasionally, having to confirm them. Sex goes from being a passion to a duty, and that’s why is becomes increasingly sporadic. Women hang out and brag of their man’s insatiable fire, which is nothing but an outright lie. Everyone knows this, but no-one wants to be left behind.
Our life together is verging on monotony. Love can withstand this, but for lust, it’s fatal.
No one can force himself to love, nor can he force another person. All you can do is look at love, fall in love with love and imitate it. There is no other way to achieve love and there is no mystery about it.
Men and women have exactly the same desire to cheat as their partner. It just happens that women have more self-control. Brief encounters without any emotional involvement on the part of the man, and with the sole aim of satisfying sexual urges, enable the preservation and proliferation of the species. Intelligent women should not blame men for this. They try to resist but they are biologically inclined to do it.
Unaccompanied men start looking around, discreetly seeking single women. The women, in turn, look at one another: how they're dressed, what make-up they’re wearing, if they’re with husbands or lovers.
Spiders and snakes
Have you noticed how human beings are more frightened of spiders and snakes than by automobiles despite the fact that deaths from traffic accidents are much more frequent? This occurs because our minds are still living in caveman times, when snakes and spiders were lethal. The same thing happens with a man’s need to have multiple women. While women think about preserving the species, man’s commitment to the species lasts, at most, eleven minutes. For the woman, each child means at least nine months of pregnancy, not to mention having to take care of the offspring, feed it, and protect it from danger like spiders and snakes. So our instincts were developed differently. Affection and self-control became more important.
Deep down we’re all the same. We make the same mistakes and walk around with the same unanswered questions.
The fate of people who think they’re so beautiful and powerful as they walk down the red carpet lies in the hands of an underpaid guy from the news department. - Paulo Coelho
Smile: a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.
Be kind, while there's still time.
The rational mind disappears again and I’m grateful, but if you stayed this way forever you couldn't live in this world.
It’s completely useless, but it was a bargain
Tourists get closer and take photos that will come out poorly lit. Wouldn’t it be easier to just buy a postcard?
I have visited many monuments around the world, many of mighty men whose names are long forgotten, but who will remain eternally mounted on their beautiful horses. Of women holding their crowns or swords to the sky; symbolising victories that no longer appear even in textbooks. With very few exceptions, in the end, a city’s landmarks aren't its statues, but unexpected things. When Eiffel built a steel tower for the world’s fair, he never dreamed it would wind up being the symbol of Paris. An apple represents New York. A not so crowded bridge is the symbol of San Francisco. Another bridge, this one over the Tagus dominates the picture postcards of Lisbon. Barcelona has an unfinished cathedral as its most emblematic monument.
Nature, nurture or Nietzsche?
Our body is made almost entirely of water, through which electrical charges pass, communicating information. One such piece of information is called love, and it can interfere with the entire organism.
Love isn’t just a feeling, it’s an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration, but a lot of work.
The big problem is that people believe what they see in books and movies - the couple that strolls along the beach holding hands, gazes at the sunset, and makes passionate love every day in nice hotels overlooking the Alps. My husband and I have done all that, but the magic lasts one or two years at most. After three years of marriage, a person already knows exactly what the other wants and thinks. At dinner parties we are obliged to listen to the same stories we’ve heard time and time again, always feigning surprise and, occasionally, having to confirm them. Sex goes from being a passion to a duty, and that’s why is becomes increasingly sporadic. Women hang out and brag of their man’s insatiable fire, which is nothing but an outright lie. Everyone knows this, but no-one wants to be left behind.
Our life together is verging on monotony. Love can withstand this, but for lust, it’s fatal.
No one can force himself to love, nor can he force another person. All you can do is look at love, fall in love with love and imitate it. There is no other way to achieve love and there is no mystery about it.
Men and women have exactly the same desire to cheat as their partner. It just happens that women have more self-control. Brief encounters without any emotional involvement on the part of the man, and with the sole aim of satisfying sexual urges, enable the preservation and proliferation of the species. Intelligent women should not blame men for this. They try to resist but they are biologically inclined to do it.
Unaccompanied men start looking around, discreetly seeking single women. The women, in turn, look at one another: how they're dressed, what make-up they’re wearing, if they’re with husbands or lovers.
Spiders and snakes
Have you noticed how human beings are more frightened of spiders and snakes than by automobiles despite the fact that deaths from traffic accidents are much more frequent? This occurs because our minds are still living in caveman times, when snakes and spiders were lethal. The same thing happens with a man’s need to have multiple women. While women think about preserving the species, man’s commitment to the species lasts, at most, eleven minutes. For the woman, each child means at least nine months of pregnancy, not to mention having to take care of the offspring, feed it, and protect it from danger like spiders and snakes. So our instincts were developed differently. Affection and self-control became more important.
Deep down we’re all the same. We make the same mistakes and walk around with the same unanswered questions.
The fate of people who think they’re so beautiful and powerful as they walk down the red carpet lies in the hands of an underpaid guy from the news department. - Paulo Coelho
