*blink* LiveJournal changed their journal update window. Interesting. Don't know whether I like it or not yet, but I do think the userpic's in a better location. Once I get used to looking for it there.
The 'hee!' is because I believe I'm finished with my Christmas gifts and I'm going to the post office tomorrow.
The catch about mailing presents is that you aren't able to see the other person in the moment when they open the package. No pleasant shiver down your neck when you see their smile and feel accomplished that you've managed to find a good present and make them happy.
(Though perhaps it's just as well; I had virtually no good ideas for gifts this year, though I also started thinking about gifts later this year than last year because of the papers.)
The friendship, though absolutely intrinsic to the above, is because I re-found the following passage in the book Star Trek Lives!:
Each of them triumphs alone. But then, from their lonely pinnacles of success, across the deep gorge that separates them, they exchange brief smiles, knowing smiles, hardly more than a twinkling of the eye, that says, "Yes, I see you. I know what you've done and what it cost. And I know it was worth it."
[...]
They know things about each other that nobody else could ever know; they understand each other in ways that nobody else can; they verify each other's existence.
The authors are discussing the relationship between Kirk and Spock, but I think it applies equally to Gon and Killua. As does a quote from Gene Roddenberry on the same topic used in the book: "It's quite a lovely thing any place where two halves make a whole."
It's idealized, but after putting the finishing touches on the Christmas packages, I find myself too content and full of love for the few precious friends I do have to care.
The 'hee!' is because I believe I'm finished with my Christmas gifts and I'm going to the post office tomorrow.
The catch about mailing presents is that you aren't able to see the other person in the moment when they open the package. No pleasant shiver down your neck when you see their smile and feel accomplished that you've managed to find a good present and make them happy.
(Though perhaps it's just as well; I had virtually no good ideas for gifts this year, though I also started thinking about gifts later this year than last year because of the papers.)
The friendship, though absolutely intrinsic to the above, is because I re-found the following passage in the book Star Trek Lives!:
Each of them triumphs alone. But then, from their lonely pinnacles of success, across the deep gorge that separates them, they exchange brief smiles, knowing smiles, hardly more than a twinkling of the eye, that says, "Yes, I see you. I know what you've done and what it cost. And I know it was worth it."
[...]
They know things about each other that nobody else could ever know; they understand each other in ways that nobody else can; they verify each other's existence.
The authors are discussing the relationship between Kirk and Spock, but I think it applies equally to Gon and Killua. As does a quote from Gene Roddenberry on the same topic used in the book: "It's quite a lovely thing any place where two halves make a whole."
It's idealized, but after putting the finishing touches on the Christmas packages, I find myself too content and full of love for the few precious friends I do have to care.
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