Relationships: Post Mortem

All actual life is encounter.

- Martin Buber, I and Thou ( Ich und Du ), 1923

People and relationships are like the slurry of atoms under a microscope.

In a deeper biological sense ( *puts nerdy glasses on* ), life is basically made up by many singular entities, each continuously making an endless chain of chemical bonds with other entities, to make a much bigger and substantial molecular structure. As time passes, some of the links weaken, either through change in temperature, a chemical reaction, bombardment of other particles or just because it feels like letting go. And this makes the main particle feel less relevant than before, considering that atoms have feelings that is.

If that didn’t make your nose bleed, I don’t know what can. Anyways…

Because we enter this world as lone beings, the connections we make throughout or lives is essential. The kind of company we keep around is crucial part in defining who we are. The same thing goes with the people we don’t have around anymore.

It could be as…

…Simple as an acquaintance, like the new weird silent guy at the office who you can’t seem to break out of his Twilight Zone…

…Deep as a dear friend, who’s your shoulder to cry on or the ears to your spontaneous bitch fits ( which ever way works )…

…Natural as your family, who, for the most part, will be their for you when your at the top of your game or when you decided to jump in a pile of cow poop…

( Or ) … Intimate as your special other -- a boyfriend or girlfriend, a soul mate, a husband or a wife, or just someone who… completes you ( bring on the mushy potatoes and cheesiness!!! Oh, boy. ) …

Whatever kind of relationship it may be, every time one detaches from you, it’s gonna hurt. The only difference is how painful it will be in the morning when you realize that, you, someone else or fate, pulled off that giant Velcro strip attached to your heart.

But there would be band-aids for 3rd degree nylon hook abrasions. And the creation of ingestible contents of alcohol ( thank you, innovation! )would somehow help to ease the pain. We will still have go forth and continue with the way of the lonely atom, charging nucleus-first in the vast pool of particles, with better knowledge and understanding of the fact that relationships should never be taken for granted.

We should cease all thought of neglect towards the people we have in our lives. Because we will never know when life would be throwing a killing rampage, and before we know it, the links we have will be blurry, broken, hanging by a thread or even gone.

Sincerely yours,

Rasui Akira

Official Head MDL ( Modern Day Loser )