If you ask me — and I know you didn't, but it's fair game since this is my post and I'm a busybody — if you ask me, that sounds the very opposite of dumb. When you get down to it, what else is there but love?

Besides fame and fortune, obviously. But after those two basic needs are met, I think most of us feel that need to be needed. To know that we matter to those who matter to us. [ He tips his head a little, something sympathetic passing over his expression. ] You say you want to be more daring, but it takes courage to admit to wanting something, sometimes.