Why so cynical? Don't you believe in open happiness. Maybe two people who had unhealthy relaionships can communicate having learned from the past? Dan and I have done that, after meeting here, and are starting a new life together. I feel sorry if you are still healing and have no hopes for the future.

Sounds a little Shakespearian. And although I love his work, his vision of romance was askew by the times he lived and worked. Passion may be all well and good, but it is ethereal. Only a sustainable love based on filial or intellectual grounds will survive time.
Self awareness has been shown now in ants, insects, not just higher life forms. So, I don't think it matters how long you live, as long as you have an awareness of life.

I counted my years and realized that I have less time to live by, than I have lived so far.

I feel like a child who won a pack of candies: at first he ate them with pleasure but when he realized that there was little left, he began to taste them intensely.

I have no time for endless meetings where the statutes, rules, procedures & internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be done. I no longer have the patience to stand absurd people who, despite their chronological age, have not grown up.

My time is too short: I want the essence, my spirit is in a hurry. I do not have much candy in the package anymore.

I want to live next to humans, very realistic people who know how to laugh at their mistakes, who are not inflated by their own triumphs & who take responsibility for their actions. In this way, human dignity is defended and we live in truth and honesty. It is the essentials that make life useful. I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch the hearts of those whom hard strokes of life have learned to grow with sweet touches of the soul.

Yes, I'm in a hurry. I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give. I do not intend to waste any of the remaining desserts. I am sure they will be exquisite, much more than those eaten so far. My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.

We have two lives,the second begins when we realize we only have ONE.