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maya

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About Me

People have always complained that I'm too loud. My voice carries and the result isn't always euphonious. I'm the one that you can hear all the way across the restaurant/the bus/the lobby/the café. The one making the wildly inappropriate remarks at the top of her voice. I'm the one whose passionate opinions sometimes feel like a frontal assault. The one who is dying for you to be passionate and articulate enough about what you believe to convince me that I've been wrong about everything all along. I'm the one you look askance at sometimes when you think that I'm not looking. I 'm the one you sometimes wish was you. I'm the one that you're mostly grateful you are not. I'm the one who is shattered when I hurt someone by accident. The one who revels in staggering to my feet again when someone knocks me down on purpose. I'm the one who wants desperately to do the right thing. The one who wants even more desperately to know what the right thing is. I'm the one who worships Art,Literature and Philosophy, but find myself called toward the great demotic flood of pedestrian humanity and the extraordinariness of the ordinary. The one who craves idealistic purity but lives with my hands dirty up the elbows with gorgeous quotidian life. I'm the one who gets involved with all the wrong people, takes home strays,adopts lost causes, makes poor judgments, says all the wrong things and rages against disappointment because I've sworn to live with the consequences and to live without regret. Growing up meant realizing that this was going to be awfully difficult. OTHER RANDOM FACTOIDS: i am definitely not for everyone...my sense of humor is self-reflexive and obscure...i fear boredom most in life, but find fascination in almost anything...i have too much to say...logorrhea, if you will...i am narcissistic but more interested in you than in myself...i am easily enchanted...i lack sufficient discipline...i sing a hell of a lot better than i play guitar, which isn't saying much (i never got past chords and have the rhythm of someone having a seizure), but couldn't dance my way out of a paper bag...i speak several languages fluently...i've lived on 3 continents...i rescue strays and befriend underdogs...i love to paint, draw, take photographs (level of talent/skill is debatable)...i hate television and have never owned one, but find pop culture interesting to analyze...i am fascinated by avant-garde art and movements,revolution, experimental life and alternative culture, multiple modernities, urban space and post-socialist subculture...i'm to the left of lenin...i am grieving for the state of our nation...i believe in the vocation of public intellectual...i'm direct, intense and uninhibited but have a strong sense of my principles...i am emotionally engaged but rational to the core...i believe in fair play, even when it is not in my interest...i hate manipulation and bullshit...i vehemently hate drugs and think doing them is LAME...and think i am nuturing to a fault, but often overwhelm people who don't have a strong sense of self and for this i am thoroughly unapologetic...i know what i want out of life and am not afraid to put myself out there to get it...i am a strange combination of cynical and trusting...I live in leaps of unwarranted faith in human goodness that almost invariably leave me, sooner or later, falling flat on my face. hard. but i always, always, always get up...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Self-seekers, truth-makers, dancers on the grave of the spirit of gravity. Intellectuals, activists, revolutionaries, artists, writers, poets, musicians and freaks. People who are alive to the myriad glorious possibilities in life without pretending that this world isn't thoroughly fucked up. People who would rather stick red hot pokers in their eyes than watch television. People who've got their own thing going on. People with passion and commitment. People who have lived and have stories to share. People who crave intensity like air. People who aren't afraid to give a shit. People who have a sense of fair play and empathy. People who know their own beauty and aren't embarrassed by it. People who thrive on human connection. People who feel a little lost sometimes but know that nobody can ever really show you the way. People who aren't obsessed with the myth of their own hipness, who aren't so fixated on making some lameass scene that isn't going to matter five minutes from now anyway (and doesn't really even matter now), that they can't allow themselves to endure a genuine moment when it happens. People who understand that if just one other person gets it, that's already good enough. Say what you mean, and mean what you say, but most of all, please HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY! People who are so scared of life that they perpetually hide themselves in pseudo-jaded hiply-ironic quotation marks need not apply.

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