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I don't take things for granted. I also try not to overpromise and underdeliver. At the same time, I've been very fortunate in my life, and I'm looking for a partner to share our good luck. In a partner, I'm mostly looking for a friend and a fair amount of chemistry. Everything else is very secondary. A friend once asked me who had been the most influential person in my life. I think that's a question worth answering even though they don't ask it here. I told her that I've been blessed with too many valuable mentors to single one of them at the expense of others who have contributed just as much to my personal growth. Insead, I gave credit 1) to a discipline (economics) for providing a framework and for helping me understand more issues than I thought understandable and 2) to an institution (Harvard) for picking me out of nowhere, for opening my mind, and for indulging my imagination. Looking For: We all have to live with reality. Yet, looking for the ideal partner is not a waste of time. In my case, if she and I put one another's interests on par with, and maybe above, our individual own, if she is on my mind more often than I'd like to admit, if we we end up finishing each other's sentences, if I can't wait to meet, hold, and kiss her, then probably we are meant for one another and she would be the right one for me. I know it's a tall order.