Everybody wants not only somebody to love, but also to be...

He's a so-called old soul, and he knows what he wants. 

"I am going to have my own company, one day, and to be the boss. A good one".

I smile, very proud of him, and yet I can't help but tell him: 

"You know, as far as I can remember, I almost never met someone that said that they wanted to be a bad one, not officially, at least not on purpose. Most people want to be a good boss. It is just not that simple, because not everybody has the needed soft skills and not everybody is willing to work hard for acquiring them, or they are not aware that they are not as good as they think to be and that they need those skills in the first place".

[Nobody wants to be a bad boss...

Well, maybe nobody but the weird characters of

Seth Gordon's Horrible Bosses (USA 2011)...

from a time when Kevin Spacey was still considered cool] 

He agrees with me, and we change the subject.

Still, I keep thinking about it.

The color of nostalgia is... Cultural differences in color psychology, featuring green fairies, pink cakes, and kawaii hair

Months ago I read somewhere that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was accustomed to write while using green ink instead of the more traditional black one, because to him green represented hope.

Probably it is not any longer possible to know with 100% certainty whether this piece of information is accurate or not, and yet it would be wonderful if it would be true.

Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

(Love is so short, forgetting is so long)

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

by Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto

better known as Pablo Neruda [1904-1973]

Colors, both natural and artificial ones, are everywhere around us.

We speak and communicate through colors all the time, not only visually while choosing specific nuances for our clothes, accessories, cars, commodities, and goods, but also metaphorically through idiomatic expressions.

[Retro ink bottles by Iroshizuku in different colors...

just as stylish and elegant as expensive perfume bottles would be

Image source: Writer's Bloc]

Green is, for example, the color of hope, relax, peace, nature, harmony, luck, and youth.

And at the same time...

A ton of not so romantic and yet pivotal questions about attraction & falling in love, or just yet another blog post about the classic plot "Boy meets girl"

Boy meets girl... a classic and even archetypal plot that can describe in just three words the main idea of thousands of movies, books, songs, theatrical plays, comics, and other kinds of storytelling. 

We could also say "Boy meets boy" or "Girl meets girl", if diversity, political correctness, and inclusion are as important to you as they are for me, and yet the sexual orientation of the individuals that are falling in love would not make such a great difference.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Katherine Mansfield  [1888-1923]

The most important thing is that two people, previously two strangers to each other, at some point get to know each other and fall in love.

[Boy Meets Girl by Brandon Kallmes,

© 2011-2013

Image source: dribbbe]

What exactly do we love, when we are in love? What do we find interesting and attractive in another person? Is this something that can change over time, or do we tend to fall in love over and over again in the same way?