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Every relationship demands a sacrifice, usually of self through which we get a new and more enduring self... All relationships give us two things essential to our lives, recongintion and realization... They help us to realize ourselves by helping us to survive today, and they remind us of what no one can prove, that we are real... It is an unfortunate, some times, even tragic fact, that every form of relationship has it politics, and that survival often has nothing to do with the good qualities one owns, but with the negative character traits one has mastered... Communication is essentially truth, and truth is essential to every successful relationship... Those who wish to master others begin with the truth and make it an element of their lies... If you can master the vocabulary it is a small matter to master people, so how you define yourself and others is the key to your control...

In reality, if you must cry in your relationships, and not just morne the loss of them; they are not good relationships... They are not relationships with common goals... As shakespeare said: when two people ride a horse, some one has to sit in front... Every relationship, no matter how broad, as those of party and nation are, are ultimately one on one...We have a unique relationship with everyone in our town, or school; but no matter how distant or general a relationship is, people should be united in.their goals, and then it does not matter who sits in front or who calls the shots at any given time or place...If one would make himself the master of another, and the relationship works in some fashion for each, then there is little harm done since many who seem free are none the less slaves of their passions or fears...Yet, even where the relationship is one of total exploitation and human degradation the clock ticks alike for slave and master...

Those people so plentiful who glory in the ruination of their relationships are wasting their lives and the lives of their partners by equal measure... The rich may buy a few years with the sweat of the poor, and may even reap a heart or other organ in their quest for longevity, but they do not buy happiness with the misery they sell, nor security with the insecurity they trade for it...

It is a wonderful thing to correct the wealthy of their waste of life, and to rectify them, and the pius and the political- for all the pain they cause; but best for all to avoid those who exploit their relationships no matter who they are... To learn how to relate is the same as learning who to relate to... Assholes are many, but good people are too; and the difference is that good people are a consolation for all the pain life gives to each... The users manage every trick of politics to get others to bear their burdens and suffer in their place... Disbelieve them... If people make you cry, they are not worth a relationship, or of the investment of self we must all make to have good relationships... We either cry together, or step apart...