"Love, oh Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able to love the world, not despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect" From Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. A quote I like to think I live by, definitely makes me smile ^_^, and sums up a bit of what I passionately believe in. Compassion.

Hello by the way, and thank you very much for coming to visit my profile.

I feel that there are infinite ways to define a person, and I absolutely love that. My favorite aspect of myself I would have to say is my spirituality and everything that grows with it. I love to look deeply into the divine aspects of beings and things and take the time to appreciate and love them. I feel that giving that gratitude, that silient but loud appreciation, of which my favorite expression is in a smile, gives everything the better chance to blossom into even more beauty.. forgive me, but I tend to get a bit passionate about this belief and practice and can sometimes get lost in my wording, haha, so I hope all of that made some sense :-P

I love compassion, I love stillness and appreciating stillness just as I love craziness and appreciating craziness. My coworkers and friends have told me before that when I just speak to them it brings a sense of calm.. (Heaven bless their hearts for their kindness, I love them so much) and about two seconds later I can be found skipping, cartwheeling and singing a baraton rendition of Rolling in the Deep by Adele. Goofiness is just another way of loving being if ya ask me :-)

I like learning new things, and sharing stories and experiences, and I place a very high value in personal growth, being able to examine one's own thoughts and kindness in understanding.

I like going to Barnes and Noble, Starbucks, and other places to sit and read. I've never before been this much into reading and learning as I am now, but one of my many great joys is to learn, grow and smile while doing it all.

I'm polite, a believer in chivalry, respectful, and I can act pretty goofy too, especially if its for a laugh. I don't take things too seriously, but I do have a big heart, and I love living a life that keeps it open.

I've finally come to a place over the past few months where I can say that I'm content with myself, there's no need to really change the way things are in my life and I'm content with where I am going. Even in times of feeling of lonely, I can acknowledge what I'm feeling, delve into it and understand that even in my discontentment with that loneliness, desiring closeness with someone is just another form of loving myself and feeling that maybe I do want a little more. It's almost like saying that I feel content in my discontentment, or even when I'm lonely, I love myself enough to recognize that, and find contentment within it.

I'm also very interested by astrology actually, so again I'll apologize for going all over the place there before, hahah. Both my rising and ascendant signs are in Gemini ^_^

So, if I've peaked your interest at all, let's be friends ^_^ if things should go any further than that I wouldn't be opposed. But I think a good friendship is a good place to start, so instead of going out on "dates" I find it a lot more comfortable to just "hang out." The less of a "tone" there is set for things, the more room there is different melodies and harmonization, yes? ^_^ Anyways, I figured I wouldn't put too much about myself here though so I could leave some things to still talk about and questions to ask and such.

Working as a server at Changs, going to a community college planning to transfer for teaching, practicing Reiki and giving treatments whenever I can, and going to Kung-fu. Also going to a buddhist meditation group when ever I can. Reading when ever I can as well; I try to take my Kindle wherever I go and read on breaks or in between whatever I've got going on.

Also just trying to find some new like-minded people to hang out and have fun with ^_^

Also actually trying to learn Spanish as well, and I would really really like to take on Mandarin Chinese next! Hellloooooo Rosetta Stoooneee XD

Being a good brother, son, and uncle. Making sure I'm the best I can be in those areas above all because I love my family. Most of pictures I do have, although they don't reveal a lot of me, they do show what's important to me. Family, and spiritual growth.

Dancing out of nowhere. (Especially at work.)

Using my hands with Usui system of Reiki. Pretty good at giving massages as well, especially foot messages, heh.

Im good at serving and taking care of people, even though its my job, its something I really enjoy doing too.

I suppose I'm good at kung-fu as well.

I'm good at listening and putting others before myself.

I'm sure there's more stuff I'm good at.. Like breathing.

I'm tall. Get the question all of the time, naturally of course so it doesn't bother me at all. "You must be a mean basketball player huh?" My reply, "Not so much. I'm the balance of tall people that makes the other tall people really good at basketball.. Because I pretty much suck at it. They send me a check about every six months or so."

My hair is the other I get a lot of compliments on I suppose because I try to keep it up and neat. The two H's. My hair and my height ^_^ (Side note: If I'm not at work, I do have a bandana usually on my head though as you'll see in the pictures I'm sure.)

I've been told also that I have a warm, inviting vibe about me. That was cool. Cause I'm pretty sure I didn't threaten whoever said it to say it so I could put it in my okcupid profile.

Pretty sure.

I've also got many compliments on my smile at work as well. Pretty frequently ^_^ Same people that say something about the warm vibe are usually also saying something about my smile.

Books: Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tuesdays with Morrie, Picture of Dorian Grey, All of the Harry Potter Books :-) All of the Twilight Saga (don't judge please lol) and All of The Hunger Games Series, Buddha in Blue Jeans, Compassion and Meditation: A spiritual dynamic between Budhism and Christianity (one of my absolute favorites), Tao Ti Ching, Siddhartha, The Dhamapada, a few from author Mantak Chia, No Self No Problem by Anam Thubten, and damn near anything on Eastern Philosophy. Western philosophy is cool too, I'm just a little more captivated by Eastern.

Movies: I <3 Huckabees was one of the most profound philosophical and phunny movies I've ever seen lol, Hangover, 21 Jump Street, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, (A new favorite thing of mine to do is catching movies opening night too :-) so fun) My Best Friend's Girl, The Avengers, Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Stranger Than Fiction, Memento, The Majestic, Fight Club, Inception, anything Chris Nolan really. lol. Snatch, Despicable Me, Finding Nemo, The Emperor's New Groove, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Wreck-it-Ralph, Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas, Flight, The Fountain, Many more

Shows: Don't watch too much tv really actually, but if I do though.. America's Best Dance Crew I've always absolutely loved, I could just talk about that show forever. Avatar: The Last Airbender is another TV Show I have always absolutely loved, and I'm loving season 2 too ^_^ Awake is pretty bad ass show too. All the investigation shows, CSI, Psyche, Monk, all of those are cool. My favorite cartoon series thus far though is Samurai Champloo. Fav of all time.

Music: Love all music really but my favorites are more laid back electronic kinds of music. Trip Hop bands like Massive Attack, Portishead. But my actual favorite band is a neo-jazz type band named Jaga Jazzist.
UPDATE: After putting that favorite band into Last.Fm, I actually came up with a Huge amount of new music that I can confidently say I love even more, and that is Instrumental. Bands such as Explosions in the Sky, 65DaysOfStatic, This Will Destroy You, and pg.Lost have absolutely rocketed up to my most listened to music ^_^ When Studying, when driving, when doing damn near anything <3 If you like that kind of music, don't read any further just message me, lol.

More favorites in other genres I have are Little Brother, Foreign Exchange, Elzhi, Common, Lupe Fiasco. Silversun Pickups, Linkin Park, Queen of the Stone Age, Priestess, 30 Seconds To Mars, Lauryn Hill, Adele, Arcade Fire, Frank Sinatra, The White Stripes, Wu-Tang, The Killers, Norah Jones, Nujabes.. See how I'm bouncing back and forth here? Lol, that is my taste in music. NOTE: That I honestly don't like listening to Lil' Wayne or Nicki Minaj.. At all really. I've got some views on artists like that, no disrespect to them or course or to anyone that does enjoy their music.

Food: is wonderful. I am not at all a picky eater. I just love food. Have been looking a lot lately at the more-so vegetarian path though. Feel like it's only a matter of time, lol.

--Family-- I know they are not really "things," but I can't not put them on this list. Heaven knows where I would be without them. And I'm including both my family, and my Kung-Fu school here too because they too have made up a huge part of who I am.

--Connections-- Seeing people smile, and listening to people talk about things they love and are passionate about, like travelling, or their career, or their pets ^_^ Sharing experiences with people, laughing and smiling with them. Brings the deepest sense of joy to me to see others smiling and happy about things

--Beads-- Whether it's a mala bracelet or necklace, I can really feel uncomfortable without them on me. They're really just reminders of the things that I try to practice for spiritual growth, to be kind and compassionate to others, but they also are a reminder of how things are impermanent and never as solid as they seem.

--Food-- Especially sweets. Gemini sweet tooth is twice as strong, lemme tell ya.

--Cellphone-- To call my family and so they can call me wherever

--Breath-- Without this blessing, I most certainly would not be able to enjoy the previous things mentioned.

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What my life theme is.

Mindfulness. Compassion. Kindness

The future.

Why people worry so much.

Spend a lot of time thinking about my family in Georgia, my mom, sister, nephews and nieces. Miss them a lot, but always see them at least once a year before fall semester starts.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to practice being a more virtuous and overall better person too and just what that means to me. "With our thoughts we make the world we live in," is a quote from the Buddha, so I suppose I try to think about how to practice making that world. I have learned that compassion is one of the most important things for sure. And learning just that small piece has greatly changed my life for the better.

How to pass on and teach the virtues that I've learned to young minds, beginning with my nephews and nieces.

A person's personness. Questions like: What's your story? How did you get here? Why are you here? What do you believe? What do you practice? What do you value? What your dreams about? How do you want to change things? Better yet, how do you want to effect things? What brings you joy? Contentment and happiness? Why does it seem like those feelings are so fleeting? Expect vs Accept.

It's one of the greatest feelings to me to be able to share pieces of your view of the world. :-)

Working. Pretty rare I ask for a Friday night off, as it's kinda my money day. Being a server and all of course.

Namaste

I bow to the divine within you. ^_^

You'd like a new friend.

Friendships are the main thing that I would be really looking for. Anything more than that, if it happens it happens. But I'm very open minded and I'm really just looking for like minded people to share moments with is all.

(just mentioning this in parentheses as a sidenote: I'm not one of those guys that says "yeah, ya know I'm just looking for friendship" when they mean sex partner, friend-with-benefit, or anything of the like.)

Also, when I get comfortable talking to people, I tend to type or text how I would talk: using a lot of "...", and just animating a lot, lol. ((shrugs)) I practice good grammar too though, just mentioning because I know it bugs some folks.

I also really enjoy chatting with people from all over, and do well to keep in contact with friends that even live across the country using Skype, so if you l live a little father away but would still like a pen pal, or Skype pal, hah, it would be a pleasure virtually meeting you as well :-)

It would be a plus though if you really liked meditation, kung-fu (kung-fu movies, or martial arts in general, lol), diners, and/or chatting over cafe drinks ^_^ Oh, and if you're really into astrology too! I love learning more and talking about that as well.

I do hope to hear from you, but wish you all of the happiness in the world just for Being :-) Thank you again for visiting!