A Relationship Parable.

The other night I was surfing randomly and came across this little piece of Shel Silverstein loveliness – The Missing Piece meets the Big O.

The message of the parable is obvious, and it fits with the thoughts I’ve had about relationship dynamics lately; being with someone new has set me to thinking about the good and the bad of those who came before. It’s not even so much thinking about who the people in my life were, but who I was in each of those pairings.

In the last two years I’ve been through some pretty radical internal changes sparked by both adversity and success. My meditiations in this blogspace have included love, loyalty, friendship, strength, beauty, solace, prayer, courage, spirit, and the illusions of security; not just for the sake of writing, but because I was living through each of those reflections as I showed them to you.

Now life has evened out to some degree, I hope I can hold onto what I have seen in myself and keep my focus on those lessons. I don’t expect my emotions to fall into some sort of “steady-state”; I only hope to have perspective on them as they flux and move.

Having let go of a lot of my anger and alienation, I feel stronger now in *all* my relationships than I have in a long time. I suppose I don’t feel like I have a missing piece or am a missing piece – I am just me and I am very grateful for the people with whom I “roll”.