“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know one’s self.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

When I was seventeen, I wanted to split men open like oyster shells.

I was naive enough to believe that those emotionally unavailable, mysterious and brooding Adonises must be hiding radiant pearls inside all that protective casing. Shakespeare, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, said,”Why then the World’s mine Oyster, which I, with sword will open.” [...]

Excerpted from elephant journal. Read the f...