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I am a word merchant. I peddle phrases and sentences through my writing and my speech. I am naturally inquisitive. That's my training. For years that's what I've been paid to do - ask, ask, ask - interview and extract information. Like a needle piercing the skin to penetrate deeper into the veins to sample blood, I ask beyond the superficial to obtain substance from people. And now probing has become more of a habit, a healthy habit to get to know individuals. Life has been kind to me. I have been blessed with things that I should be and that I am thankful for. I believe that life is beautiful because God is good. As long as one is anchored on faith, s/he will never go wrong, always finding her/his way home. I have wandered and I have traveled. I love to do both. Wandering makes me distracted. Traveling makes me fulfilled. And music . . . it keeps me satisfied. I love to sing. I sing to exercise my lungs and my vocal chords. I sing to exorcise my spirit, to purge the unclean. Nothing captures the soul like a melody can. So I let it all out. I sing . . . and I dance. Good music is a good corporeal indulgence. It makes one's body twist, turn, writhe, squirm in excitement and delight. I am always helplessly drawn to the dance floor. Enticed . . . until I give in. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. And the same thing applies to all other things - even to the simple things in life that I enjoy most - sleeping and eating. I don't believe in any form of diet. I don't believe in depriving one's self of anything good, although good is relative. "Good" is actually, in my dictionary, a boring word. "Good" is the ordinary word people use when we can't say anything compelling. But it's still good. Good is good. The beach is the best - the sand making love to your feet, the sun challenging your strength and your stamina, as if asking, "Can you stand the heat? Can you take it?" Something about the whisper of the wind soothes my nerves, calms me down, makes me forget; similar to the way I forget life beyond the walls of the theater whenever I'm inside one. Movies, plays, musicals present life in a different form and give their audience the thrill of "watching", taking a peep, stealing a glance at other people's idiosyncrasies and intimacies . . . reflecting our own. Love going to the mall, sometimes to observe people; but most of the time to abandon myself to the lure of the material world. I splurge on fashion. Shopping is a privilege. Plastic is powerful . . . and in this case, The pen is mightier than the sword, indeed! I invest in words. I purchase reading materials as if I had all the time in the world to read. I love books. I devour books. INTENSE :) I am a very passionate person. I love profoundly. I hurt deeply. I have the heart . . . AND I have the scars. But I'm not afraid. Being deeply loved gives you strength, while loving deeply gives you courage - Lao Tzu.