Excerpt 16 'A Coin'

That’s the problem with most people. They do damage and they think that because they caused so much of it, it’s more of a reason to continue. That all it took was one fight to taint a relationship. It’s like this. You buy things and you keep them clean. You take care of them. Keep them in a special pocket. Away from keys and coins. Away from other things that should be kept clean and taken care of as well. Then they get scratched, and scratched again. And again. And again. Soon, you don’t care about them anymore. You don’t keep them in a special pocket. You throw them in a bag with everything else. They’ve surpassed their form and become nothing but function. People are like that. They use other people until they’ve surpassed their form. You meet them and keep them clean. In a special pocket. And then you start to scratch them. Not on purpose. Sometimes you just drop them by accident or forget which pocket they’re in. But after the first scratch, it’s all downhill from there. So because of that one scratch…, two, three, four… it just gives him a reason to keep that coin in that form. It just gave him a reason to keep our relationship that way too.