Friendships Always End

There is a phrase out there somewhere in the universe that goes along the lines of the following: "Good friendships never end". If you were to ask me my opinion on that quote a few months ago, I would respond that it was somewhat true, and that good bonds with others can only be broken by death (however, in spiritual terms, the bond would still exist in the afterlife). Nowadays, I look at that quote and laugh in some mad, manic way. Of course good friendships can end. It happens everyday in the world that we live in. Wouldn't divorce be a good example? What friendship is greater than the love between two individuals? Isn't it strange then how it can so easily be broken? If I were to speak in chemistry terms here for a second, most friendships are dipole-dipole forces -- strong but weak. They're fragile. Add enough energy and they can be broken and change over to some other phase. However, some friendships are hydrogen bonding. They're a special type of dipole-dipole force that exhibits stronger bonds. They can also be broken and mingled with, but the energy required to do so has to be of a greater magnitude. Think of the energy to not be measured in Joules, but to be the x amount of conflicts that exist that can threaten the strength of a friendship. Therefore, when I say that more energy (conflicts) is required to break the bonds between molecules (friends) exhibiting hydrogen bonding, you may be able to understand the whole theme that I'm trying to explain to you then.

We're all going to have to be shipped somewhere else in the world, especially if you're a teenager nearing the end of their days in high school. You may go off to college, a technical school, or not attend any post-high school education altogether, and in those years of your life be without the friends you had in high school. That's common. People move on and create lives of their own, void of more than three-fourths of the people they grew up with. Sure, you may be best friends with somebody now, but will you even know them personally twenty years down the road? It may be considered a broken friendship, or a forgotten friendship, but nevertheless, that friendship didn't exactly last forever. Did it? No, it ended. When we're shipped out into the world, the U.S. Postal Service might as well take us through a system of conveyor belts and stamp 'Fragile' on our foreheads. We are extremely fragile at this point in our lives. The friendships of our past will not be sustained, and will change no matter what happens. You may still be 'best buds' with a friend of yours years after graduating high school, but when a husband or wife enter your life, and then children, and the same may go for your friend, I doubt you two will be hanging out a lot. Right now, being a high school student, the only thing that keeps best friends from being together seems to be jobs. Well, add spouse, kids, kids' kids, and more to the list that already has jobs, and you're going to see how much time you'll spend with a friend of yours in ten to twenty years from now.

This has been my honest opinion on matters that have been bothering me lately, and the chem twist was added as I have three AP chemistry assignments due for Tuesday and my head is filled with ions gone wild.

Have a good one.