I don't know much about Paul Allen. Obviously, he has done much more for humanity than I or anyone reading this could ever hope to achieve.
A lonely man on a yacht
The only things I know are fragments, a few pictures in the media and a Wikipedia article.
Poor Allen will be a symbol here; a meme, something we might recognize. He is the picture of the lone billionaire who never married, sitting on his yacht.
Was he happy? I don't know.
By Issacc brock - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Greatest Treasure
For Antinous and me, the greatest treasure is having one another. To be on the journey with our soulmate and married to our handsome best friend.
Sometimes we have the impression that heterosexuals might forget this, perhaps out of convention, more used to take a relationship for granted, or because the external and internal battling have been less confusing and conflicting.
The picture is not that easy and stereotypical, of course. But whoever we are - let's not take our relationships for granted or as a convention, a comme il faut.
The most fundamental capital we might have is our own, human capital. What we finally really own is our ability to create wealth.
This fundamental capital is infinitely boosted and magnified by having our best friend at our side.
And it's not only capital. It's two brains, two ambitions, two sets of friends and families and networks and passions and inspiration, and all that add up, and create something that exists between us, and is far greater than anyone of us can achieve, do, think or imagine by ourselves.
There's infinitely more wealth and adventure that materialize in the empty air when we are together. And adventure out of thin air is magic that not even Mr Allen's yacht seems to quite make up for.
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