"You have ravished my heart
My sister, my bride
How sweet is your love"

In the still coolness of the night
I slipped into the lush balm of your skin
enveloped by the honeyed musk of your hair
Cradled by your strong limbs

In that moment I was
baptized with your sweetest nectar
in the still coolness of the night

"I know you"

When you meet someone for the first time and you are inexplicably drawn to them and they to you. What is that, that mysterious sense of familiarity with a perfect stranger? What is that peculiar, unshakeable instinct of a shared knowledge, belief, faith, experience, past, something, anything ... They could be from half way around the world from you in many senses, but you are mutually aware that you are, in fact, from the same true "place".

Is that what a soul mate is? Maybe you knew each other in a previous incarnation (if you believe in that), or your soul's speak the same language, vibrate at the same frequency ... you are then aware of your intimate connection to something beyond "you" ... that boundaries between objects are perceptions and that maybe there are no objects, just oneness because where do I stop and you begin...

And, you think to yourself "I know you".

I have always known you.

Popularity

Popularity is self proclaimed. Who are the "popular" kids anyway?

They are the kids who believe themselves to be popular. The truth is they are well known. Whereas, popular means well liked. Popular, is an ice cream flavor that runs out first because a lot of people like it and order it.

In this culture though, the "popular kids" are not necessarily and in fact, usually, not the most well liked. They are merely the ones who believe themselves to be the "coolest" and therefore, the most "popular". They are elitist, exclusive, and snobby. None of the traits that actually make people well liked.

I find it humorous in a ha-ha sort of way that even in grad school there are these so-called "popular" kids. It is a testament to the fact that these kids have not matured into adults. That is why going straight from undergrad to grad school is dangerous: you lose the opportunity to mature socially. A seamless stream of schooling from kindergarten onwards to grad school is highly inadvisable for many reasons, this being on of the more trivial ones.

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