They send a person who can never stay she whispered. Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I cant help ... just the sort of person I cant help falling in love with....As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldnt help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind that makes us hurt most those we love best

I had a dream about you I was cooking dinner and you came out of the bathroom with a troubled look on your face. When I asked what was wrong you said I have never been with a woman over 120lbs I was confused but said nothing then you said The scale says you weigh 122lbs I dont think we can work I was baffled by your strange and cruel attidude and said that you would have to take your food to go.

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didnt see the inside of you that it didnt care a whit about the hopes and dreams and sorrows that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple as absurd and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were would be or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure the space between their eyes their chin length the tip projection of their nose whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not.Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly stupidly.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing which could lead to their downfall.