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I'll never understand the appeal of beach vacations - staying in a safe, all-catering resort, sunbathing, drinking cocktails on the sand. It's just not for me. It sounds, well, boring.



There isn't a place in the world I don't want to see.



To me, a vacation doesn't need to be luxurious to be a wonderful experience. It can be uncomfortable, dirty, exhausting, beautiful, sad, or unforgiving. Anything that takes me out of my comfort zone is rewarding. Travel, in my mind, is seeing and absorbing everyhing, be it good, bad, or ugly. How can you truly know a place without allowing yourself to experience the full spectrum?

The other day, I was looking through old Myspace messages and came across a particularly nasty one, courtesy of my step-brother, which detailed all the reasons why Daire made a terrible boyfriend. As with another male friend of mine, the reasons came secondary to the sheer desire to separate me from my boyfriend so that I might become available, but whatever the motives, the message inspired a rant, which I will now extract from my brain and place here.







Don't ever presume to understand the dynamics of two people's relationship based on what you see outwardly. You have no idea what is going on underneath the surface, what that couple has experienced and endured together.



Daire and I very private people. You will seldom hear me proclaim my love for him, on here or anywhere else. I don't feel the need to assure the world that I love my boyfriend. It's enough that he knows it. It's the same on his end as well. We might tease each other relentlessly in public, but that is not all there is to our relationship. The aforementioned friend thought Daire was being disrespectful in his teasing. He had not a clue what Daire and I have been through together, no idea how deep our respect for one another truly runs.



Our relationship is one of mutual understanding, respect, and devotion. Our public couple's persona does not put all of that on display so that others might judge it to be true and give us their "blessing."



In the end, all that matters in a relationship is exclusively between the people who share it. Try to bear that it mind next time you try to judge two people based on what they allow you to see. You're barely grasping any of it.

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xxEmaeraldxx
00:31 Sep 14 2011

Well said. Wars have been started over assumptions, it's so small minded of people.

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