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Benedict Arnold

Aside from the essentials, food, water, sex and shelter, what's the thing you value most in life?

For me it's a toss up between music and words, I love music because I love lyrics, they bring me joy.. As do books and the written word, I was thinking today that words are one of the greatest gifts we have and I appreciate that words help us learn, they provide relaxation and they fire the imagination :)

Posted - February 22, 2017
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  • 5808
    but of course
    Life itself...haha
     Seriously? Meditation
    Through which
    I can reach the place beyond
    the desires of the Ego.
    Once in that place of oneness I am content. 
      February 22, 2017 12:50 PM MST
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  • That's a cool place to be :)
      February 22, 2017 2:24 PM MST
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  • Sex, huh.  A lot of married guys are told that it is no longer essential. It can be replaced by a "cold shower." :)
      February 22, 2017 12:50 PM MST
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  • LOL well that works too - I guess cold showers are something to look forward to too :P
      February 22, 2017 2:23 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i like the internet a lot
      February 22, 2017 12:53 PM MST
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  • Mr too Pearl, it's been a big part of my life since I first got online in 1994. 
      February 22, 2017 2:25 PM MST
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  • So glad you found AnswerMug, Dear Pearl, your participation here adds SO much and so delightful, thank you.
      February 22, 2017 2:47 PM MST
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  • For, water and shelter are essentials ?
      February 22, 2017 1:01 PM MST
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  • Um well I think so.. but now you ask, I am not so sure :P
      February 22, 2017 2:25 PM MST
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  • 3375
    I'm like you.  I love music and cannot imagine a world without it.  

    But the top of my essentials list, it would have to be the connection I have with those I love.
      February 22, 2017 1:07 PM MST
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  • 10026
    A person you care about and love to share it with :)
      February 22, 2017 1:20 PM MST
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  • LOL well yea and in the absence of that there's always music and words still :P
      February 22, 2017 2:26 PM MST
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  • I love music but I love words and reading the most. I go through books like no tomorrow. Currently reading this really great book.


    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 22, 2017 5:08 PM MST
      February 22, 2017 1:21 PM MST
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  • 3375
    Good one Rooster.  I love books too.  I read constantly whether it's online or the old fashioned kind of page turner.
      February 22, 2017 1:26 PM MST
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  • I love, love books but i am the worlds slowest reader. it's so frustrating as I would love to read every book that was ever written..  I am really envious of people who can read fast.
      February 22, 2017 2:27 PM MST
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  • I usually read about three a month depending on how much time I get.
      February 22, 2017 2:39 PM MST
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  • Good grief I am lucky to read one every 3 months... which is a shame as reading is important to me. I am reading a series of three books and erm I have been reading them for a couple of years now.... I am only about 1/5th the way through the second book! It's kinda cool in a way cos I get to live in that world for a long time. Part of me lives in the Ozarks 
      February 22, 2017 2:42 PM MST
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  • 32664
    I live in the Ozarks. What are you reading?
      February 22, 2017 3:23 PM MST
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  • The Nearly Complete works of Donald Harrington. I have been reading them for a couple of years at least.. I feel that part of me is there in that world. The books build on a world set in the Ozarks - the people are interrelated and characters pop back and forth in the tales. They are stories about people... and I love people so it's the perfect book or series for me.. 
      February 22, 2017 3:30 PM MST
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  • 32664
    I may have to look at them. 
      February 22, 2017 3:35 PM MST
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  • I thoroughly recommend them.. he writes brilliantly.. loads of history, how people were, their struggles in those early days and as I say it's very much about the people.
      February 22, 2017 3:38 PM MST
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  • Rooster, I get SO many great reading recommendations online...and I could easily fill my docket from just yours!
      February 22, 2017 2:49 PM MST
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  • That book is so good! War is over and what a mess with the Russians wanting to invade Japan and us in the middle!
      February 22, 2017 2:52 PM MST
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  • 495
    My health.
      February 22, 2017 1:32 PM MST
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