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I'm truly a lonely traveller in this world and it seems to me that I have never belong to my hometown, my workplace, my home, my friends or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; for in the face of all these ties and relationships, I've never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude --- feelings which increase with the years and that I've long been used to. 

Schopenhauer's

What's wrong with me? I don't know. But what I know about myself is that I just want to be myself --- an autonomous, free-choosing individual who'd like to construct a lifestyle congenial to MY idiosyncratic sense of self-expression. So if you love me, stay with me; if not, leave me alone. I'm not made to be all things to all people. And I don't want to be mundane and mediocre.

My dearest son, it's a sunny day today and I've got something to share with you. Although I'm queen of myself, successfully ruling my domain, whatever it is --- home, family, office, classroom, etc. --- with a loving heart, you are my SUN, the great source of light, warmth, dreams, strengths, inspirations... I just can't help feeling confident, but

Love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch is not well kept. To make things worse, once in love, it is impossible to remain wise.  And what makes love paradoxical is that love is forever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt, or even with disgusting and deliberate ignorance, the latter

Life can be good

Life can be bad

Life is mostly painful

But sometimes glad

Life can be loss

Life can be gain

Life can mean a person

labouring in vain

Life can be dirty

Life can be pure

But life is what you make it

So try to make  it secure