Who am I and what do I want?

Taylor

Push me to the edge

Have you ever watched an ant in a petry dish? He spends almost his entire time at the edges, reassuring himself he has tested the limits of his surrounding and can rest assured that he has exhausted all of the opportunity of his circumstance.

I live by a set of core principles that are always under a cycle of reflection and re-evaluation, but have become more solidified as I mature my life experience.  Integrity by matching word with action is paramount.  Keeping the most critical eye on myself first, and then others to ensure that what people get from me is the most refined and cultivated version possible.  To live life without fear of death and to learn to enjoy the beauty in constructive pain are two liberating skills that bring a whole new level of fufillment from life. I'm not a fan of the golden rule but a modified version of it -- Do unto others as they would have done to themselves.  The original version leads to really bad Christmas gifts.

If anything is worth spending your time on in life why not give it 110%? I may not produce results for every task I set my heart to, but my audience should rarely attribute my failure to insufficiency energy investment.  Value your time, and don't waste it wavering on decisions that have insignificant consequences.  Do make an effort to find the objective rational basis for important decisions, and try to figure out how to arrive there in a time efficient fashion.

Learn to love the beauty of reality, statistics, bad behavior, and accepting with humble skepticism that there is plenty we don't know now and can't know using only the limited perspective of our individual consciousness.

Extract the most of the sensual pleasures and enchanting sights, sounds, tastes, smells and textures and emotions you can feel in this world.  The best are usually the ones you can't put on 20' sea container from China.  The smell of freshly ground coffee, the sight of a sunrise from a rocky precipice overlooking the ocean, the citrusy fragrence of fresh cilantro, the exploding resonance of fireworks in Victoria Harbour, the familiar fit of an old pair of jeans, the rush of joy from finding something precious which was long ago mourned as lost-- and of course, the wonderful combination of sensations that comes with the passionate embrace with a lover.

I enjoy hanging out with people with similar interests, and good conversationalists. I enjoy people who look at things on a deeper level. I enjoy dining and cooking, and all kinds of drinking activities (ex: fine wine, coffee, exotic beers..). I also enjoy travel, the farther and more exotic, the better!