The trap of good looks

Attractive faces and bodies do not guarantee good sex. The kick may run deeper than a pure aesthetic gratification, yet nerds and average-lookers are more reliable for good performance in the sack.

London friends

London friends have the wave nature. All things going right, they occur wth a frequency about once a month, although twice-a-year ones are quite common too.

Somebody, everybody, nobody...

When you drop everybody for somebody, you will always end up with nobody.

Neither too shallow, nor too deep: the Middle Path of human relationships

There is a Japanese saying about human relationships: "asakarazu, fukakarazu" (浅からず、深からず). Go too deep and you risk hitting the dregs of the human psyche you would not want to deal with, go too shallow and you will skip on the surface without developing anything meaningful. Staying in the middle is hard work, because it is not a simple middle ground or compromise.