Relationships

People often describe relationships as a network of connections, where one dangles with one another via a web-like structure, clinging onto each other, linkages form and go, voluntarily and involuntarily, easily and difficultly.

Yet, it is an inaccurate description as it has overlooked the one fundamental essence that exists within a relationship - time. Without time, the static web structure seems fit, but it has ignored changes, or more accurately the relative distance between one another, physically or mentally.

Relationships are fundamentally dynamic, which interact and clash via words, emotions and actions, spoken or written, paper or electronic.

Relationships have always been fluid rather than stagnant.

I like to think of oneself as atom, scattering and moving across the world, with each encounter being a crash, some leaves an indentation and disappears, some moves along, some propels you further, some changes your direction, some speeds you up, some slows you down, yet they all become part of you eventually, whether it reaffirms your beliefs or alters it. None of the outcomes can be forced or controlled, for we have our own pace and destination, yet we should be glad while it lasts, for its eventual past.

Let us go then, you and I, when our time still hasn’t come.

Let us chat and burst into laughter and tears,
when the sight of me is still clear.

Let us make memories,
when the evening is spread out against the sky,
for the night ends before we realise.