"Relationships," Part II

The rhythm of relationships is the rhythm of life and death. Every relationship eventually shatters; and if not by choice, then by fate—and that fate is death. Everyone who lives will one day die and die alone. Even the best of friendships die. Our friendships can be as beautifully as a lilies in a world of dust and ash, but they will eventually wither into a handful of scarred, fibrous corpses, eventually becoming nothing but coal. Life’s that way. A cycle of birth, life, and death. This cycle permeates everything, including relationships. Relationships are born, relationships flourish, and then—often when we do not expect it, and even when everything is wonderful—relationships die. Like all death, it can be slow and painful or quick and painless. It can happen with brutality or with serenity. But, ultimately, and this cannot be denied, relationships do, one way or another, end.