Do you ever wonder how all of society is developed on some huge game of universal tug-of-war based on the strength of opinions?  All of the things that we can call absolutes in this life started as opinions which grew stronger and were maybe proven, making them fact...and once those facts were known by everyone and transferred into common knowledge, they became absolutes.  The only reason we know anything in life is because somebody else knew it first.

Think about your life right now, and what you believe, no matter how small or how large.  It doesn't even have to be religious.  Why do you believe what you do?  Because somebody told you about something, and you COULDN'T REFUTE IT.  Life is one giant argument from us outside to our peers.  We influence one another and constantly pull back and forth in the universe, waiting for enough opinion to shift one way so that it becomes fact, and we can figure out what the hell to do with it.

That's why topics like love are so complex, and nobody knows anything about them.  Nobody has come out with strong enough opinions to sway people about what love actually is, so nobody REALLY knows what it is.  We just guess.  And if two people's guesses match with each other, they become fact in those people's minds and things click.  Isn't it funny that in relationships, all we're trying to do is convince the other person that things could work out?  It's a very subtle argument, but it's still an argument and a reciprocation of all of these principles.

I just happen to find it funny that when I look at the vastness of the world and what everybody believes, I find that there are very few things in life that I know for certain.  And that even if I may know something for certain, somebody could come along and convince me that I'm wrong at any moment, and I'd have to completely redefine my life.  The only reason why we're even living the way we are is because it HASN'T BEEN DISPROVED YET.  We haven't failed yet.  If we had, we'd stop doing what we were doing and try something else in hopes that it would work, right? 

This is why I have just recently learned that you should NEVER count out the importance of the impact you make on so many people EVERY DAY.  By simply living, you are changing everyone's opinions slightly, and it all is part of this universal balancing act that make up our society.  It's not a game that you win, and changing everyone's opinion does not necessarily shift any tug-of-war balance to "your side," but isn't it funny that a lot of our goals in life have to deal with being the best person that we can be, and that the best person that we can be isn't really us, but rather, a collection of everybody else?  I just thought that was interesting.  But still, you can be a huge influence on people in smaller circles, and it might be enough to make them adapt to include part of you in their personality.  So it's always important to exemplify your beliefs that others have provided you so that you can recycle that and watch it germinate in other people.

And I guess that's really what friendship is all about.

Forever and Always,
-The Music Man