C'est pour vous, mon chou.

It’s strange how life works.  One of the most important relationships of my life was also the most confrontational.

This friend and I used to be complete opposites....I guess we still are, but not really, because we’ve grown.  Regardless.  We used to get into conflicts all of the time.  We would fight, and without being conceited, I would always win.  That’s because when I argued I used logic that was completely impossible to oppose.  I’m overly logical, and it’s difficult to oppose logic without sounding unreasonable.

He was more emotional.  Everything he said he said out of passion.  Which, in its own way, is equally as important as proposing rational thought.  But because we were so different in our ways of thinking, me being completely rational, he being completely emotional, we never agreed on anything.  In the end, it was our inability to accept the other way that led to the end of our friendship.

I wasn’t the same.

I realized how important it is to have a balance of emotion and logic.  By only using logic, I made a stranger of one of the biggest aspects of being human - the capacity for passion and emotions.  But without using logic to drive that passion, it’s often too whimsical to be realistic.  I learned to balance myself.  I learned to stop using brute rationale to cut people down....at least, for the most part.  It’s still an old habit, and you know how those go.

I’m a different person.

Your friends and all of the relationships in your life....they’re all experiences.  Experiences are what shape who you are.  Even the negative ones.