A small little girl asked her mother this question: "Mummy, why are we here on earth?" Her mum answered "We are on this earth to help others." The little girl thought about that statement for a while and then said "Then Mummy, what are the others here for?"
I used to think about that for a period of time and thought to myself. How nice if we were to have a script for everything? Just like a computer! I could just download a script that someone has written, run it, and everything comes out fine and dandy. Imagine then, a script for getting together with someone. Every thing would be so easy! Well, that's for computer to computer. Unfortunately, boys and girls, we're dealing with human to human relations here. It gets much more complicated than that. Computers do not have emotions, PMSes, character traits. Computers do not have excessive armpit hair or scratch their no-show areas in public. Humans, on the other hand, do. Which is why we see the make and break of human relations sometimes. It's just like how a girl might be unable to tolerate a guy's public display of scratching personal, private cracks and crevaces. Or how a guy might be unable to tolerate the- "Honey, am I fat?" "No baby you look great!" "YOU LIAR!" - syndrome.
Make and break relationships. Sigh. But things do have exceptions. There are stages to making a relationship. The feeling one another out period. (character wise. Not physical wise. Feeling one another up physically constitues mutual molest.) The trying out period, the getting together period and all that. Exceptions being the cliched happy ending - growing old and dying together. Or even reconsiliation.
Just an example. FRIENDS. That long, successful comedy that lasted 10 seasons. Everyone should remember Chandler, Joey, Ross, Rachel, Monica and Phoebe! Well, if you don't, basically, these 6 people were best of friends! Monica and Ross were brother and sister. Joey and Chandler are roommates. So is Rachel and Monica. eventually, Monica and Chandler got married. So did Ross and Rachel. However, when Ross and Rachel were together as boy-girlfriend, Ross made a mistake and slept with someone else. They broke up eventually in this really really emotional scene:
I remembered watching this scene and was very sad when it happened. (All loyal followers of Friends would.) However, this video would totally sum up what I've been trying to say.
If you do follow "Friends", you would remember that Ross and Rachel's relationship with one another was a very traumatic one, with many breakups and getting together again. Eventually they got married (for the second time) and lived happily every after. It's a frustrating, long, dramatic relationship that should I choose to illustrate every event, I would be at my computer until I turn 40.
The 10 seasons of friends. Love, hate, relationships won and lost, made and broken.
