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A life goes by, romantic dreams must die, So I bid mine goodbye, and never knew So close was waiting, waiting here with you, And now forever I know, All that I wanted, to hold you so close... Oh how could I face the faceless days If I should lose you now? We're so close to reaching that famous happy ending, Almost believing this one's not pretend, Let's go on dreaming, Though we know we are so close, So close, and still, So far. So Close Alan Menken Enchanted Original Soundtrack lets be real. life is not the romantic fantasy portrayed in the ever popular mediums of film and song. these fantasies are supposedly the ideal that we

Love, love is a verb, Love is a doing word, Fearless on my breath. Teardrop Massive Attack Collected, Track 4 trust is a verb. to trust is to allow yourself to rely on someone else to protect you, particularly in situations beyond your control. so if you trust, does that mean you are dependant? of course. one could suppose that, the more you trust someone, the more you depend upon them. to tell you the truth, even when no one else will, to look out for your best interests, even when you cannot do this for yourself, to keep your secrets, and to do these things reliably. and love is also a verb. is it the same as trust? almost certainly,

It isn't just the past we remember, it's the future too. Fifty percent of memory is devoted not to what has already happened, but to what will happen next. Appointments, anniversaries, meetings, all the rolling engagements and plans, all the hopes and dreams and ambitions which make up any human life - we remember what we did and also what we will do. Only the knife edge of the present is 'hard' to any degree. Past and future are things of the mind, and a mind can be changed. Eric Sanderson The Raw Shark Texts p260 Steven Hall 2007 a mind can be changed. for sure, there are many constant elements that are difficult to alter, but it's not