Love and Quantum Physics

This is a nice idea and I read it in the book "Random Acts of Heroic Love" by Danny Scheinmann. Very good read. Makes you cry in the Tube, btw. Anyway, here is relationship explained and Quantum Physics terms:  "Not every collision will make an electron change its spin-an electron can have many affairs,.., but not all will be significant. If, however, the electron is profoundly affected by another electron it will become entangled with the new partner."

Boyfriend

Realizing that the boy you love and is supposed to be your boyfriend does not love you actually, is quite daunting. It's true, I want to be loved and I would like to think that I am lovable. I don't want to end up alone, even though we come to the world alone and probably leave it alone...yet, until then, it is stimulating and reassuring to have a companion and love in your life.

His excuse: he can't love anybody. And here we go again, hope dies last, hoping that love will spring....

Finally made it to Bournemouth

Oh, and what a good time we had. Beach volleyball in drizzle, but so much fun.

On When Men Reveal Thoughts and Feelings

Gregory David Roberts writes in his book Shantaram: "Karla onces said that men reveal what they THINK when they look away, and what they FEEL when they hesitate. WITH WOMEN, she said, it's the other way around. (Chapter 23)

On Knowing Love

"She [Sara Nariega] would defend herself, saying that love, no matter whatelse it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: 'You are either born knowing how, or you never know!" (from Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985).

Satellite - Love - Eurovision

How does that go together? Well, easy: A love song called 'Satellite' wins the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. And it was Lena who sang and won for Germany. Nice surprise. As an expatriat living in the UK I heard of Germany's victory several days later and checked out the song. Well, I am surprised that she won. Was it because of her cheaky innocence, the casual freshness and clumsy dancing? Well, whatever the reason, she won! She touched people's minds, which is more important than a perfect voice or perfect artistic performance. Hear the song here.   (Photo: Amazon)

Who is the Boss?

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published the findings of a study about what kind of people often become leaders. The surprising news: Those who speak loadly and speak well, offering lots of ideas, are likely to be followed. Offering loud and quick answers seems to be the key, and the answers don't have to be correct....

Garcia Marquez about Wisdom

"But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good." (Garcia Marquez in Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985)

Lev Tolstoi ueber Verzicht auf Gewalt

Am 07. September 1910 schrieb Tolstoi in einem Brief an Mahatma Gandhi: "Die Liebe ist das Streben der Menschenseelen nach Vereinigung und ihr daraus sich ergebendes Verhalten untereinander. [....] Er (Christus) wusste, wie es jeder verstaendige Mensch wissen muss, dass jede Anwendung von Zwang unvereinbar mit der Liebe als dem hoechsten Lebensgesetze ist und dass, sobald Vergewaltigung auch nur in einem einzigen Falle als zulaessig erscheint, damit zugleich dies Gesetz negiert wird." (aus Tolstoj. Insel-Almanach auf das Jahr 2010 von Lux, Christian & Hans-Joachim Sinn (eds). Frankfurt und Leipzig: Inselverlag: 2009)

A Good Man's Life

"According to Wordsworth, the best portion of a good man's life is his little, unremembered acts of kindness and love." (Bill Clinton, My Life, 2002)

Declaration of Love

Quote from "Menschenkind (Beloved)" by Toni Morrison
"Suddenly he (Paul D) remembers Sixo trying to describe what he felt about the Thirty-Mile Woman. 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.' " (Book III)

"Ploetzlich faellt ihm (Paul D) ein, wie Sixo einmal versucht hat zu beschreiben, was er fuer die Dreissig-Meilen-Frau empfand.

'Sie ist meiner Seele gut. Sie sammelt sie zusammen, Mann. Die Stuecke, aus denen ich bestehe, die sammelt sie zusammen und gibt sie mir in der richtigen Reihenfolge zurueck. So was ist gut, weisst du, wenn du eine Frau hast, die deiner Seele gut ist.' " (Photo: Amazon)

Girls & Boys?

Teenage girls seem to be very active nowadays in finding boyfriends for themselves. An exclusive source (let me call her Lina) described how she had been admiring and eye-flirting with that cute boy one year above her in highschool. Her girlfriend encouraged her, saying that she had caught him watching Lina at a distance, concluding that he must be interested in Lina. Two days later, Lina summoned her courage and asked the boy if she could have his number. She said that she was scared of being rejected, but could not avoid asking him in the end. She got his number. Thank God. Have times changed so much that girls take the initiative in an instant and with no time to wait? Or are things just more open now, where girls and boys alike act on their interest? Gone seem to be the times when girls had to wait patiently for a pursuer. Perhaps not quite. Having a closer look, let me realize that, actually,  it has been always been the female who actively looked for her mate, yet she has done it in a more subtle and patient way, or not?

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