My Life With Sam

Hello dear followers, Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️ ♥️ ❤️. Hope y’all having a wonderful day with the person you love, enjoy every moment you spend with them. This day of all days we choose to call it the day where we express our romantic love and affection. But do not be bounded by a day, an event or an occasion. Let it be a reminder for you that you are loved and you love. Let this day remind you that it is not just one day. But every day, show your appreciation. Let this day remind you of the selfish love you have for the person you love, because you want to have them in your life and they want you in theirs.

[Selfless love] would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person’s need of you. I don’t have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

I want to share with you, one of my personal favorite letters from an American author I’m sure you’re all acquainted with. This is a letter sent to his son two years prior to wining the Noble price of literature. As you may have notice, Sam and I have starred wearing the engagement rings. He carries it in the neck, while I carry it in my ring finger. Wearing the rings may have a different meaning for each and every one of us. In our case; It is not to continue with tradition, for we do not care for that. It is not to show each other our love, for we have well rooted within ourselves the answer to weather we love each other. Is to show the world we are half, without the whole. To show not that we are jealous if someone might try to pull us apart, for we simply won’t. Neither he, nor I. Would feel jealous if someone feels desire for either of us. For it is not because we are afraid to loose one another. Rather.. to show with pride, we don’t want anyone else than each other.

New York November 10, 1958

Dear Thom:

We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.

First, if you are in love, that’s a good thing, that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.

Second, There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you, of kindness and consideration and respect, not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply, of course it isn’t puppy love. But I don’t think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it, and that I can tell you.

Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

If you love someone, there is no possible harm in saying so, only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another, but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I’m glad you have it.

We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.

And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens, The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Love,

Fa

Letter to his son Thomas –John Steinbeck, 1958.

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“In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow” William Shakespeare: As You Like It – Act 2, Scene 4

“Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight” William Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet – Act 2, Scene 6

🎄Christmas is just around the corner! And with that spirit I would like to thank you all, our dear followers for your support and your devotion. Over 10k followers and rising with our two blogs! Thank you for sharing and liking our blog, for without you all our blog couldn’t be known.

We will be posting more content in the upcoming weeks. I apologize for not being so active. I will try to improve.

“And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then It started to grow. But the sound wasn’t sad! Why, this sound sounded so merry! If couldn’t be so! But it was merry! Very!” -Dr. Suess , how the grinch stole Christmas

“There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned” William Shakespeare: Antony & Cleopatra – Act 1, Scene 1

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation”

–George Washington, Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783)

Wedding updates will be coming soon. We have decided to have it by next fall, although details are still in the process of being worked out. We will however be letting you guys know more about it soon. Also if you guys have any quote ideas please let us know. We are seeking quotes that follow our quote pattern; that is (authors, ideals, style) as well as proper quotation.

Hello dear followers. I have an announcement to make. I apologize in advance for in the next post I may include some quotes which I was not able to find the proper citation for. I was only able to find the name of the author. I encourage everyone of you to let me know if you are aware of the proper citation of the quote in question. As always don’t forget to be awesome!

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” –George Edward Moore

Happy pride month dear followers! 🏳️‍🌈Congratulations for being able to freely express your affection towards your partner in an open way. Congratulations to not have to hide yourselves behind the shameful cover of denying yourself from who you love.

Many of you asked us if we went to the pride parade. For all of you guys who asked us, our answer is no we did not. In our personal views, we think that rather than, one day a year march in the streets half naked and shouting. We prefer to celebrate by each day being able to be with each other. Walk down the street holding hands and not having to worry about society imposing upon us a standard for normality or even worse dictating what we are allowed to do or be with. Do not get us wrong, we do not have anything against going to the parade whatsoever. We actually think it is a great way for all of those who feel fear and alone, to be able to know that they are not alone and they will never be as long as we, as a community are there to stand for those who cannot. However, we like to think that it is better to earn respect than demand it. There are still those who think that homosexuality is something wrong, something that shouldn’t exist in our society or in some cases, something that should be punished. Rather than proving them all, that the generalization of all homosexuals as morally wrong or depraved is completely mistaken.

There are places in the world and societies (which we will not call by name) places where the yoke of religion imposes those who practice it to regard homosexuality as something punishable by death. Places where they oppress women by forcing them to cover themselves. To everyone practicing a bigoted extremist idiotic belief that homosexuals should be punished. We need to show we are normal people, who want the same things that everyone want. We do not crave for fear or anger, for bigoted opinions or imposing upon someone else our views, we just want to have normal lives, be with who we love and ultimately happy.

Hello dear followers! Thanks for all the love and support you have shown us. We would like to once again send a message to you all. This blog is not meant to become a gateway for people to share hateful comments or ideas. We started this blog with the purpose of sharing the love that Sam and I have for each other. To perhaps be able to get a smile in your faces, to show that the generalization of homosexuals as “depraved and incapable of love or real affection” is not true (this sentence was taken from an inbox)
We mean to, perhaps encourage those who struggle with their own demons and are not able to find themselves. To find their identity. To show that there are stories out there. There is people out there that will love you as much as we love each other. 
Regarding our previous post, we would like to state that we intended to show our support upon a tragic event. And as we stated we did not intended it to become something political or by any means a discussion. We had to delete and block every comment that was meant to incite more hateful sharing of ideas as well as the several private inbox we received. It is not our place to tell you all what to think. The sharing of moral support to the victims of an incident like the one it took place, may or more likely may not help as much as we would have like it to, but we do it all the same for the sake of knowing that we would be glad to help if we had the opportunity to do so. Some of you guys also felt offended by the fact that we are more conservative leaning, as well as the fact that we do follow political figures such as Marine LePen for le Front National or Paul Golding in Britain, in other social media of ours. If you guys want to have a political discussion you can have it in other forums. The beauty of freedom of speech is that every single one of you have a voice and the right to make it be hard. However if you are so eager to have such discussion you are welcome to follow my personal twitter @Alexander_aac , though I am not really active on it. Make your voice be heard, but have patience for not everyone may agree with your views. Through discussion we get to solutions. 
Once again thank you all for all your loving support

“You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right … Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly, but firmly with all your classmates; you will find it the policy which wears best. Above all do not appear to others what you are not” -As quoted in Extraordinary Lives : The Art and Craft of American Biography (1986) by Robert A. Caro and William Knowlton Zinsser. Also quoted in Truman by David McCullough (1992), p. 44, New York: Simon & Schuster.-

– Robert E. Lee

Even though we do not like to get political we would like to show our support for the victims of the violent attack on Charlottesville, Virginia. While some protest for a pice of history and of their heritage others blindly follow a misguided leftist pundit trend and the instigation of violence. Learning to put aside our differences and unite must be a priority, and know that is a sign of strength not of weakness. Share love and unity. Don’t let hate groups such as #BlackLivesMatter incite more violence than what there is already.

“Love is a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” –Ambrose Bierce