Date men and women from United States / California / Cerritos, 44 year old

Date men and women from California, United States. First off, I am deeply skeptical about dating profiles and the attempt to explain what one is looking for or who one is. I believe that most of the time. we are attracted to people and we don`t know why and it doesn`t fit any checklist or adhere to the results yielded by any questionaire. that being said. here goes i hope to attract someone who will make me laugh. I want to be with someone who enjoys being alive and doesn`t sweat the small stuff. Let`s be grateful and not take anything = especially ourselves=too seriously. at the same time, i want to be with someone who looks beyond all the superficial BS that we are constanlly bombarded with in the media,etc I would love to be with someone who can teach me things without being pedantic. I value both hummility and confidence. I admire people who stick up for what is right and who are not afraid to go out of their way to be kind or helpful to others. intimcy turns me on: the kind when we listen to each other and are truly curious to find out more.

Meet people from California, United States. These are a few quotes that I find self defining in some way:
"If A Man Does NOT keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
"When the Power of Love Overcomes the Love of Power, The world will Know Peace" - Jimi Hendrix
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution." - Kahlil Gibran
"One who achieves victory over others is Strong, One who achieves victory over Himself is Mighty" - Chinese Proverb
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve
"I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn
Raised in the Pasadena/Glendale area. Back in L.A. after close to 14 years in NYC , still going back whenever i can...I Love Both the Left and Right Coasts...Maybe you can help motivate me in finally deciding which I love more. I'm slightly off center, Free Spirited, Intuitive, Introspective, Compassionate, Passionate, Sometimes a little bit Mischievous, Occasionally Very Naughty, Very much Outside the box I rarely conform if ever. Mortgage Broker, Writer/Poet, Martial Artist training competing in Karate (Primarily since 1979) Kickboxing, also studying Tai Chi Judo...My Greatest Passion is the teaching aspect, especially when it comes to empowering kids with my unique teaching style.
What am I looking for? Ideal Person? I don't build boxes then try to fit things that don't conform. It limits possibilities and isn't very fun. Then again a few constraints never hurt. If you're a cruel, chain smoking, narcissist with an untreated paranoid schizophrenic bi-polar multiple personality disorder or just plain mean, I'll probably run the other way...really fast. .Other than that, I'm pretty open, depending on our connection chemistry.
These are two of my poems that reflect my philosophy on life:
SEEDS -
Within the Darkest Depths Of Human Tragedy
Are Planted the Seeds For All Of Humanity
Through the mass of Tears
Through the Cries Of Pain
Shall We Overcome our Fears
Shall We Comfort With A Strength
Of Compassion that Can Never Wane
Within The Darkest Depths Of Human Tragedy
Lie the Seeds For All Of Humanity
As We Overturn Every Inch Of Rubble
As We Eliminate the Tiniest Pebble
Shall We Answer The Call Of Those In Trouble
Shall We Protect those Young, Old and Feeble
Within The Darkest Depths Of Human Tragedy
Grow the Seeds For All Of Humanity
Conquering all Suffering Through Perseverance
Measured by acts of Kindness
Shall We Defeat the Worst form of Evil In Reverence
Against Ignorance Borne of Selective Blindness
From The Darkest Depths Of Human Tragedy
With Seeds of Love Shall Thrive All Of Humanity
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ORPHAN: The Forgotten Child
Sadly It Has been Forebode
That Love Shall be an Albatross
That Cannot Be Found upon any Road
That This Child Shall Cross
Clipped are the Wings of Hope
Severed With Heartless Shears
Innocent and Pure This Child Is Lost
Solely to Face the World?s Many Fears
Forgotten and Alone
Discarded Yet Without Sin
For This We have much to Atone
To US ALL This Forgotten Child is Our Kin
- AMAN IKRAM