Though I am not always doing so, it is my desire to live with an attitude of love and compassion for my self and others. More than anything else, I want to be open, honest and real. Assuming that context, the thing I want most in life is to be fully engaged with others in healthy, interactive, interdependent relationships/communities of love and compassion. 

I don't know any other way of going about this than to just stick my neck out there and open my heart and mind to others. Ya, I might get hurt in the process or  I might look like a total goofball to you. Not everyone appreciates a guy who's into scientific inquiry like I am or who is willing to expose his true thoughts and feelings in public. Fine, but that's the price I'm willing to pay for the opportunity to meet others who are. 

Ya I like everybody (don't miss this point. I didn't say that I like or 'approve of' or am 'ok with' everything that everybody does). In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I love everybody, but that doesn't mean that my mission in life is to "please" everybody. I also recognize that it is not feasible for me to be "friends" with every person that I ever meet (though I'd be into it if it were somehow magically or supernaturally possible). 

So, here in the real world, I want to develop friendships with people who are genuinely interested in getting to know them selves and other people and who desire to have real relationships with others in a context of love, compassion and critical thinking about our lives, our world views and the world in which we actually live. 

As Melvin the weirdo said to Carol the waitress in the movie As Good As It Gets, "Is that something that's bad for you to be around?"