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I told myself I would write in my journal today. Hey, if you try to post, but can't, please let me know by posting....

Human nature truly fascinates me. The older I get, the more I am intrigued by it. Reading people is an art and a valuable gift. If only I could've read people better up to now.... I think human relationships are best described by way of astronomy. I saw this cool show on the science channel of how galaxies dance around each other, collide, pass through, reform.... Some collisions benefit one galaxy more than another. Some galaxies lose more stars than they gain in the incident. Heavenly bodies, period, behave this way. Moons were smaller bodies tossed about, finally gathered-up by a larger body. All orbits are moving and changing, drifting futher apart or coming closer together. It's not noticable.

The same goes for human relationships. Friends and lovers come and go. Some relationships are growing ever closer. They will only end when the two people die. One can die but the other carries the relationship on, just as a heavenly body still perpetuated by the gravity of the missing partner. Others are growing apart. Marriages are dissolving. One partner knows it, says nothing, the other hasn't a clue. Or, maybe the one growing apart doesn't know it either, but can feel it. Maybe they never were as close as it was thought.

Some marriages or relationships go on for years with one partner constantly involved with others (affairs). The faithful partner never knew. Is it even a relationship at all? It is, but each person has a different perspective on it.

It's just tough growing up and realizing that role-models go away, friends and lovers leave and you must trode on. The one comfort is in knowing that others will come along to fill the place. Our job is to be as ready as we can, having learned from the past, so that we can be the best we can possible be for our future relationships....