Mrs. Understood

Similar to how sweet the taste is after you have a cookie and took a swig of the most bitter coffee is parallel to the idea that when you approach a situation a certain fashion is exactly the feeling you will get out of it. The affinity between a sweet preface and a sour situation. How much does a prefaced perception have on a preceding situation. Take a bitter coffee for example, alone it leaves your tongue dry and flavor less but if you were to eat a warm chocolate chip cookie before that then your palette would be coated in this sweet taste deeming this experience. Perception is only what you make of it. The same goes for situations in the workplace and those in your personal life. If you allow a bitter taste to saturate into irrelevant experiences then that's what you're going to get out of it. Cookies anyone?







Henry on March 21, 1932
Anais, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. [...] This is a little drunken, Anais. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying -"you could fool me. I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. But laugh, Anais, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...]
I don't know what to expect of you, butit is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.
(LP p.32,33)