Dear Mina:

What Gyunnie was suggesting was that he should charge people those prices for asking him these questions, correct? If so, an excellent idea. I wish he implemented it in real life. If I understood correctly (first part so far of my post), then it reveals what is most distressing to him from most (future career) to least (when he will go to college.. does this mean he is not attending the SKY university I thought he was attending…?)

Notice that his uture career is way more distressing or consuming to him than having a girlfriend: $500 compared to $150.

Regarding the girl that jumped to a mattress- the assumptions that it was an overly distressed student was incorrect then, another indication that it is better to check assumptions before …well, before assuming they are facts.

Another thing, what she did was not motivated, of course, by love but by strong emotions and desperation. When a person feels strong emotions of attraction and love  another, it does not mean it is love. A person may be willing to die (jump off a building) in a demonstrative act of “love”, but it is not love.

Even way less dramatic demonstrations of “love”, such as heavy duty declarations of love, should not be confused with love. Love involves thinking and cognitive evaluation of emotion and the best interest of the loved one, as well as the best interest of oneself.

anita