yarzonum

i've been getting back in touch with old friends via social networking...it's so weird. like friends i haven't spoken to in 10+ years, friends i grew up with and attended elementary school with, friends who i'm fairly certain fucked me up for life (though, i mean that in the greatest way). it's so strange to spend so much time with people--basically on a daily basis--only to move away and then you never see them again. how can such strong connections be broken so easily?
hydrogen bonding, i guess. those comprise most of the relationships we have--just transient stuff that can be strong, especially when you're connected to many people at the same time. but they're bonds that are easy to make and easy to break; and they're relationships that can easily be replaced. and yet years later you yearn for those fleeting connections.
and the relationships that last--the ones that for better or worse you can't pull yourself away from--are just covalent bonds. strong connections where something substantial is shared, so much that if you broke that bond, you might lose a little part of yourself.
the ionic relationships are interesting, too. those are the ones where two very different people come together almost inexplicably but are so strongly connected regardless of their differences.
sure, it's nerdy to talk about our human chemistry in terms of atomic chemistry, but so what. and maybe it's a stretch to extrapolate these ideas to atoms themselves--you know, that the relationships atoms have can be remembered. i imagine a silver ion saying, "oh, that chloride ion was a crazy bitch, but i loved her."
i don't know, it makes sense to me.

ray.