They have the ability to keep you in a constant state of ecstatic happiness, they have the ability to make you come crashing down to previously unknown ebbs of discontent. They can make you nonchalant and truly indifferent to your own state of being and they can sow seeds of self doubt, and they are not just ordinary seeds, they are hybrid seeds, mercenary seeds if you want to call them that, surviving on little or nothing and overcoming great self belief of the mind they are pirating and ‘do their thang’ : reduce the person to a suspicious and cross eyed desperado and inducing paranoia that they will die alone. This, I assume is for those of us who grow dependant on a relationship, that feeling of familiarity one begins to take for granted, to use and to abuse. To those of you who are alone or single (is that a euphimism ?), I am beginning to think being in a relationship or being alone are two sides of the same coin, they come with their own set of drawbacks and advantages. However, that unexplained sense of happiness when you’re staring at the night sky with the person you love with not a word being exchanged is what makes it worth it. I think.