Connection….What connects us to other people? What makes one person love another? What connects us? Shared interests, shared experiences? Some wonderful. Some not. Sometimes there’s a connection that can’t be explained. Sometimes, there’s dependency.

Sometimes the connections are strong, and can overcome anything. Sometimes they are stretched to the very limit, and remain. And sometimes, they are stretched, and they just can’t hold up, and they break. They snap. If they hold…..then you’re lucky. But if they break, they can break your neck, your heart.

Sometimes they make no sense. Sometimes there’s a bond with someone so completely opposite of ourselves, and we have to wonder why we feel bonded to them. I’ve seen those bonds hold, and I’ve seen them break. Sometimes we can’t bond with someone so similar to us, and we wonder why not?

Sometimes the connection forms, and it gets stretched, and then the stretching stops, and then it start and that cycle goes on, over and over and pretty soon the connection is weak. The weak ones just drain the energy from you. Sometimes you want to just give and give and hope that the bond gets stronger, and it doesn’t and you have to finally give it up, walk away, say goodbye, because you’re empty. You think if you love and love and love you will be ok, but not everyone can, not everyone responds, not everyone trusts in that.

And you feel sad about that. Because there is nothing more powerful, nothing that feels better, than sweet sweet love. But you have to let it be. You can only offer. You can’t force someone to accept it.

Sometimes the connection only runs one way. That’s the saddest of all. To feel so close to someone who doesn’t feel it with you.

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the connection is formed and celebrated and you both do everything you can to make it strong. If you’re lucky. And it never dies.