May 07, 2003 00:03
When someone explains a relationship the word ‘chemistry’ is often used. I would like to expand on this idea. It seems to me that our Egos are made of matter like the elements, some of us bond easily and well with anyone, some of us will only bond under extreme pressure. Each relationship we make changes the fundamental ways we live in the world, sodium and chloride will take the edge off each other. Hydrogen and oxygen, are naturally promiscuous, but always settle down together.
So many people in this area are as needy as fluorine; at least that’s what it feels like. They pull off your electrons to make themselves stable and fulfilled. Even after they do that they often continue to take in other electrons from other sources, just like oxygen and carbon. I am looking for a covalent bond with someone; we are both stable elements by ourselves, but still feel the need for that extra electron, without making ourselves ionic in the process. Neither of us wants to be promiscuous like those metals we all know who share their electrons with everybody around them.
Recently I have been feeling almost like neon. I lack the energy to keep up the huge social networks of carbon. I don’t want to become a metal, sharing my electrons with everybody and then suddenly commenting to oxygen at the last moment. But the truth is, I am not as noble as neon. I don’t want to be permanently alone. I’m more like boron, I bond well with other elements, one at a time. I like a nice stable bond with just one other element.