Some friends and I got together Sunday to watch Totoro (thus the drawing). Earlier, I had mentioned the get-together to a friend who isn’t particularly fond of movies, but is of this one…. Anyway, in chatting with her I started pondering the following question:

What’s your perfect, repeatable, evening? Before you answer that, let me qualify it. Imagine it’s the weekend, you’ve got no social engagements planned, you’re with your lover (or alone if you’re a hermit), and you’re deciding what to do. Now, the challenge here isn’t to find the most fantastic, extravagant, or even romantic evening. No, the challenge is to describe an evening that you would happily repeat every weekend, for a very long time.

I was going to post my answer here, but I realized that for me, it’s a little too personal, and not something I’m comfortable sharing with any coworker who stumbles across this. At first, I didn’t realize just how revealing such an answer could be. I mean so what if you know my perfect evening has a sexual aspect to it? I would assume most people’s do, but it is how we frame those intimate moments (sexual, or not) that reveals so much about ourselves.

Even if you don’t ever tell anyone, you might just find the exercise of describing your answer to yourself, in detail, to be quite illuminating. But, it’ll be even better if you share it with the one you love, or save it to share for when you have someone to love.

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