On behaviour concerning effort - morphing quickly into a short treatise on relationships...

I put my all into something until its gone... and then I find something/someone else to delve into. I enjoy all of life's little gifts - people, experiences... and if they are gone... well - I remember them with a smile. I am never hurt - I love selflessly. I think people become hurt in relationships when they expect something back... and whatever they expected returns in a form not to their liking. Ahhh... control - a human need. I love not to be loved, but only - to love. I truly never feel hurt at the close of a relationship, short or long. Not because the person meant little to me, or because it was a surface "thing" - fleeting emotion... but because I embrace and assimilate that part of my life into who I am now... or rather... who I am after being with that person. Life is much too beautiful to mar with self-indulgent pity. There is always something else - just as beautiful - though different. Sometimes... it takes a little while to find the next thing. In that case... ::grins:: I do artwork until they come along.