home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!lims01.lerc.nasa.gov!caforce
- From: caforce@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (DALE FORCE)
- Subject: Re: When is it Miss/Mr. Right
- Message-ID: <28JAN199317251239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
- Sender: news@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lims01.lerc.nasa.gov
- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- References: <1j20p8INNlbj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <C137Dp.3nG@unix.amherst.edu> <C1Doox.Hp@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:25 EST
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <C1Doox.Hp@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes...
- >This is Paul's girlfriend Lilia...I think everyone has in their heads
- >an idea of the "perfect" person. Unfortunately, I think finding that
- >person is impossible. There will always be some physical or emotional
- >"flaw" making it impossible. Too many people are searching for the
- >"perfect" person when they should be looking for the most compatible
- >person. Only you can decide what flaws are tolerable and what ones are
- >not.
- >
- > It is extremely important that you don't set out to find the
- >"most compatable person" with the intentions of changing what you view
- >to be their flaws. It is more important to "work" with what you've got
- >instead of focusing your energies on fixing the things that you think
- >are wrong with them.
- >
- Without focusing on changing a person, one should remember that one can.
- It may make all the difference. (But one must do it in love, not as a
- requirement, but as a desire to enrich the relationship, or to explore new
- possibilities.
-