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Intimacy vs Sex

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In today’s fast-paced world, especially when it comes to relationships that are found, and then lost, to the vagaries of the fickle human heart, a lot of people seem to confuse “sex” with “intimacy”. These two terms maybe related, but “intimacy” is a much more comprehensive term, that goes beyond just “sex”.

Sex is much easier. It just needs “attraction”, and is usually much easier to find, relatively. It is much more difficult to find a partner you can be “intimate” with. Someone you like for more than just their looks. Just “attraction” is not enough; it needs a “connection”.

Just a few words summarizing the same.

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The Joy Of Discovering Connections

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Have you ever noticed those moments when you discover something – something important? Like a life altering piece of information, or such an obvious piece of knowledge that you can’t imagine how you never thought of it before. It doesn’t even have to be so dramatic – it could even be something as simple as stumbling across a song or a book that just moves you.

There’s a certain quality to those moments of discovery.  At first, you don’t realize what it is that you have discovered, but slowly, it dawns on you – what you have stumbled across, its significance. Whatever the discovery may be, you’ll never see the thing it was about, the same way ever again.

It’s like enlightenment – to get your eyes opened, to see something that you had been seeing all your life, yet to see something that you hadn’t seen before. And I find these rare moments quite pleasant. This is what I mean by “the joy of discovering”.

And when I talk about “the joy of discovering connections”, I’m talking about those moments where Read More »