Pearce, Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ speech gets me every time. Goose bumps…

I think you are on to something when you said your answers weren’t static.  I think everything we want out of life changes with the situations we find ourselves in at that point in time.

As for me in this particular moment, I am looking for acceptance and true connection with another person. Obviously with Craig’s response, I am not alone in this.  In my thinking, you are unable to have a true connection with someone without total acceptance of who that person is, whether or not they like salt or if they are an outdoor or indoor person…but in the end opening up to another person is scary and uncomfortable and most people come up with their own rules (read: excuses) to dating (and life) to avoid being uncomfortable…

Maybe this is what the human race is striving for – continuously searching for a place they belong but the fear of vulnerability keeps us at arms length or in this day and age at keyboards-length.

Our always connected society has diminished what it means to be connected.  And it is lonely…but like you said Pearce, I would rather take the ‘loneliness’ than settling for something less than what I want.