"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired" - Robert Frost

I came across this piece from Robert Frost and couldn't help but pause and try to ponder how I thought about it. I cannot agree more that love is an irresistible desire, my own life and actions in many different walks of my own life have proven this too me to be true. Yet that is just to me, and the other romantics in this world, always seeking the sweet ideal of that one other person with whom we can share all that we are and in turn have them share who and what they are back. A seemingly never ending pursuit of what is here called the desire to be desired, and irresistibly. That would be so nice, I often think of people in my life who seem to always have someone else knocking at their door, and I can't help but think how great that could be, without trying they have become irresistibly desired, yet the don't share that same desire that I do, for the most part it would seem. Which only leads me to believe that to be of constant desire to someone out there could have the potential to create a want to wane this desire within yourself, let ebb the tide that rises inside when the heart tries to involve. So to live life for now with basic idea of just saying "fuck it" seems about right. I find a subtle enjoyment in the tasks and challenges that life throws in my direction and even though these challenges have there toll on my persona for some times what seems like ages, a new person can emerge at the end of it all stronger, smarter, perhaps better than before. Robert Frost is a very good Canadian poet and author, I think I need to read more of his works.

From the same source as the Robert Frost piece I found this:
"the meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung

I like this a lot because its meaning or underlying concept is far more broad in its outreach than the other I wrote about. How many people in my life can I say have actually changed who I am? Recently I could name a lot of people, but how many really did actually affect, either positively or negatively, who it is that I am in this world. I have but a few really good friends with whom I am willing to share my personal thoughts and ideas beyond simple writing and shit shooting. Those are people who definitely transformed my being and my personality, in all cases for the better and some for the worse as well. The thing I can't help but think about this concept of chemical substances and reactions is of the magnitude of this chemical reaction and its subsequent affect on personality. How the gravity of certain situations can so adversely affect so much about a personality, and do so very quickly. Recovery from these occasions can be such a test of your own drive to be who you want to be, and to not let anything keep you down. But then I tend to fall into that category a lot so it makes sense that my mind could jump to such conclusions. At any rate I think what can be taken away from this particular piece is that meeting people is an important part of helping to create who you are, allowing you many different points of view and ideals worth living for and allowing you to build who you are from those views and ideals, perhaps shaping, if even finitely, how it is you see this world of ours and how you intend to spend your days here. But I will always remember that sometimes if left unchecked, these reactions of chemical significance can be devastating and require a lot of cleaning up down the road.

We are who we are because this is who we allow ourselves to be, morals and ideals are the building blocks of all great people, be sure to understand your own as you go out into the world. I understand that I have morals and ideals and that by living my life I will find as many different people and places to help and shape what those are.

Love is an ideal that for now I cannot deal with, though bring on the chemistry