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So am I supposed to be serious or funny to get you interested? No simple answers here as in life. But what the heck, I am gonna offer my view of life so if you don't like it, stop reading now and go eat a bag of chips! Thought I should warn you because some people complain I talk, whether orally or in writing, too much.

Just important that the person I am with knows how to enjoy the simple things in life. To paraphrase Thoreau, “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Sometimes I like to sit and contemplate the origins of the universe at the end of my fishing pole. You know it is a shame many people don't realize what fishing is about.

The following is a wonderful passage from Thoreau's Journal:

It is remarkable that many men will go with eagerness to Walden Pond in the winter to fish for pickerel and yet not seem to care for the landscape. Of course it cannot be merely for the pickerel they may catch; there is some adventure in it; but any love of nature which they may feel is certainly very slight and indefinite. They call it going a-fishing, and so indeed it is, though perchance, their natures know better. Now I go a-fishing and a-hunting every day, but omit the fish and the game, which are the least important part. . . I see a dozen villagers drawn to Walden Pond to spend a day in fishing through the ice, and suspect that I have more fellows than I knew, but I am disappointed and surprised to find that they lay so much stress on the fish which they catch or fail to catch, and on nothing else, as if there were nothing else to be caught. The moral of that passage is clear. Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Or as written in Not Without Prejudice: Essays on Assorted Subjects "When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation."


AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
For fun:
I enjoy interesting outdoor activities like sneaking up on bears and startling skunks. I like doing things in dark, damp places and would like to find someone who enjoys the same. I love the ocean and dream of opening a five-star skin care clinic at the trendy Gandhi Leprosy Colony in Hawaii. Like my parole officer, I feel that if you find the right vocation, your job and your hobbies become one in the same.
My job:
I work as a telemarketer for a cemetery. Calling people at dinner time to discuss their immediate plans after death has helped me immensely with the online dating scene. After working at “Plots ‘R Us” for six months, I’ve developed a thick enough skin to allow me to work through all of the hate mail and death threats that I’ve accumulated at POF.
My religion:
I was baptized as a Buddhist, circumcised by a freelance Mohel and spent the first 10 years of my life sequestered in a Catholic confessional, so I consider myself religious but not spiritual. My sect believes in reverse re-incarnation: that mankind has already lived their best days in the distant past. Each time we are re-born, we return one rung lower on the ladder of life. Eventually, after returning enough times, we end up as a chewed piece of gum, stuck on the bottom of someone’s shoe only to be scraped off on the curb.

Well, I would start by counting all the stars in the sky and then take my private jet to Paris. Yeah, right! The first date should just be fun! Who cares what you do as long as you are with someone you can have fun with? Guess I would talk with the other person and pick out something we both like from horse back riding, rock climbing watching a movie or figuring out what Kafka or Camus really means.

Never blame the rainbows for the rain
And learn to forget the memories
That cause you pain
The last whispered wish of age
Is to live it all again
So never blame the rainbows for the rain

I want to meet someone who wants to seize the the day with me! As Thoreau said, lets suck the marrow out of life and seize the day. Life is about not fearing to take a risk..to laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing Sentimental. To reach for another is to risk Involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your Idea, your dreams before the crowd is to risk Loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk Dying. To try at all is to risk Failure. But Risk we must. CARPE DIEM!! Because the Greatest Hazard to life is to risk nothing. Because then we do nothing - be nothing -become nothing.