Let's Only Date Grown-Ups

Let's only date grown-ups.
Here is what is mine, there is what is yours.
This is what I would like, and this is what I will give.
This is what I won't, can't, don't give.
Where is your beginning and what is your end?
Love is not give and take, love is give and give.
I give, and you give, and we draw lines in ourselves where we stop.
I draw a line here, do you see it?
It's the place just before it hurts me to give,
because I know, if you love me, if you love the way I do, this is where you would beg me to stop.
And if you don't, if you wouldn't, you are worth nothing further.

by Maxine Green
http://emanix.livejournal.com/26299.html?view=228027#t228027

what does it mean?

reading http://emanix.livejournal.com/23233.html and she asks what your handle means so I had to think about it. Seems important to write down.

Hypatia42 - Hypatia historically was a mathematician and librarian at Alexandria. I believe she was the only female librarian to work there. Rather than run when the Christians came to cleanse the world of pagan knowledge she stood and defended what she could and died in the fight. 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything.

Put those two things together and you get "standing up for what you believe in even when it is a risk, possibly even to your life, might just be the answer to getting everything you need." Not necessarily everything you want, but when you get what you need and can accept those lessons life is so much better and fulfilling. IMO.