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Lessons from my side: just because she's not nodding her head, doesn't mean she hates the music. Also, don't start a deep discussion just before a specific eating time, or hangriness will ensue.

> I shared what I'd learned: four kisses in the morning and
> three before going to bed is not the same as three kisses 
> in the morning and four before going to bed.

I've read this a few times now and can't work out what the implication is. Does one of you get upset if the improper number of kisses is applied?

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~bucareli wrote (thread):

I really like those two lessons!

This is a totally fictional short story, but I will have to keep the hangriness lesson in mind for future relationships:)

The last "lesson" about the kisses is a play on a Daoist teaching from Zhuangzi in a parable called "three in the morning", it goes like this:

Three in the Morning

But to wear out your brain trying to make things into one without realizing that they are all the same --this is called "three in the morning". What do I mean by "three in the morning"? When the monkey trainer was handing out acorns, he said, "You get three in the morning and four at night." This made all the monkeys furious. "Well, then," he said, "you get four in the morning and three at night." The monkeys were all delighted. There was no change in the reality behind the words, and yet the monkeys responded with joy and anger. Let them, if they want to. So the sage harmonizes with both right and wrong and rests in Heaven the Equalizer. This is called walking two roads.