O0dark0o, 37

My name is Eric, my friends call me Dark. I was born in the Philippines and adopted by an Italian family when I was an infant. I am good-natured and shy, interested in anything and everything that is exquisite, fine, detailed and highly cultivated. I put a lot of store in forms and formality, but that doesn't stop me from having a very poignant longing for ecstatic self-dissolution, which I sometimes achieve in groups, and sometimes through aesthetic appreciation on my own. I am much more comfortable behaving in public exactly like my peers, but when I am alone, I pursue activities that are sometimes almost freakishly idiosyncratic. I make friends easily but I will only be truly open with a very small group of them. I am not the best looking guy, so I have to make up for that in other things.

Why my nickname is Dark:
They call me Dark, which I prefer, because I like the darker side of life but it doesn't mean I am sad or make others feel that way. This girl whom I once knew and loved, rest her soul, said I had an air about me that was bittersweet, dark yet optimistic that you only get from years of a heartbreak and adversity. Said I had a love that was beautifully dark. -- "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain."