"I could not be more sincere

Boy whenever you are near

I just lose my mind,

I get weak inside

Swear i can do anything"

- I Can't Help Myself -

Beyonce & T-Boz

I know that I am one to get indecently carried away when I feel warmly toward someone and I sometimes overlook many things that may or may not be often considered dealbreakers. After being away from the dating scene for a while, I find myself as vulnerable as when I first stepped into the scene so many years ago. This, coupled with the lessons that growing older inevitably brings, triggers a distrusting highlight and initiates the distancing-self-protection-reaction, which must add some exotic spice to every conversation that may occur between person A or person B. The once perpetuated act of carrying my heart on my sleeve has yielded many poor harvests.

You're beautiful but you don't know

Can't see what's there inside your soul

Always feelin like you're not good enough

You wish you could be someone else

Sometimes you just can't see yourself

- Exceptional -

Jojo

Amidst all the other altruistic, beautiful, colorful, dependable, ecstatic, fabulous, gentle, handsome, intelligent, jovial, kind, lovely, masterful, nice, open, powerful, quixotic, rational, sensitive, talented, understanding, valorous, warm-hearted, xenodochial, and zazzy people... it can often be difficult to see why you should be one of the special ones.

"Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me but I could've sworn

That the kiss that was meant truly for me is leaving me torn

How can love be so kind and so gentle and turn and be so cold

Why must my arms feel so empty for what my heart still holds"

- Mary Go Round -

Musiq Soulchild

Some things we can take for granted, some are out of our hands, and yet we still often believe we can control the path of the moon.

"The path that I'm walking

I must go alone

I must take the baby steps 'til I'm full grown, full grown

Fairytales don't always have a happy ending, do they?"

Everyone deserves a happy ending, no matter how dire the story goes.

What is complexity but a set of simplicities intricately piled on top of each other.

"After all the might-have-beens,

The close and distant calls

After all the try-agains,

Don't be afraid to fall

We're on the side of angels after all."

In the tumultuous journey through adulthood, I've come back to where it all started. Hello you.