I like to balance my life when it comes to work, family, and friends. I am a focused individual who puts a lot of effort and hard work in the office and on my beliefs. I believe in a strong family bond surrounded with with a lot of spirituality, love, and care. Nothing was given or handed to me so all of my life I have worked hard to achieve and obtain what I own so therefore I appreciate, don't take things for granted, walk with my heart on my hands, and count my blessings before and after I go to sleep. Materialism comes and goes but the most important thing is not to be owned, controlled, or consumed by it, you will taste freedom and peace of mind once you let go of it. I don't get distracted and I could care less about what goes on in the tabloids( "reality" shows, Hollywood, etc...) but try to enjoy the simple things in life(i.e, the outdoors, B-days, friends, family, etc). I like to enjoy listening to all sorts of music whether in the office or at home. Music inspires me and moves me to a whole new level of spiritual comfort. Music, meditation and exercising cleans and filters my body, spirit, and mind from the daily struggles of life. I care about the environment, animals, and planet. I don't like to judge but I humble myself and respect people who they are.I like to cook, eat healthy, drink wine, be clean-smell good, and be organized.When it comes to my partner, I am not looking for perfection but someone with priceless personal qualities like being confident, simple, modest, humble, classy, elegant, honest, and smart. We are blessed every day we live a day, we are at the mercy of mother nature and other uncontrollable circumstances; therefore life should not be taken for granted. Sure people have traveled all over the world and I thank you for doing that but how has that change your perspective of life? We are all interconnected in one way or another. P.S For all of those who pass judgment without knowing the person first please keep your comments about my profile to yourself and move on. In general, our world is pretty bad out there, I am grateful & bless that I am living a peaceful & happy life thus I wont bent live and eat to people's negative thoughts and opinions. Life is to short and fragile to dwell on negativity, materialism, and other insignificant things . There will always be shallow people who judge on physical experience but its their lost. If I am eliminated from the dating pool because the cliches, "bad boy'(wrong place to look for), and "tall, dark, and handsome" then i am grateful. I only date grown up ladies. I believe in the traditional way in meeting people and socialize that is the only way you can truly get an essence of the person. Text all the time, not talking, and returning calls are games for kids so lets act like adults and have respect for each each other. Lets keep past relationships out, not be confused and be straight forward. Writing countless emails, deceiving, drama, flaky, a 1-way conversation, depressed, false impressions, rude, going through a midlife crises, shady people, not having time to meet defeats the purpose in being here and all of these is not for me.