it's weird how much control you have in relationships with other people. and how they are so dependent on reciprocity (would saying 'simultaneous reciprocity' be redundant?).

then again, it's incredible how little control you have as well. how they come to you, with full spirits of their own, and leave so unexpectedly. sometimes, before you know that they're on their way out. and then you're left .. looking at them, and trying hard to remember what it felt like when they were so very present, just a short time ago.