Thoughts from the Periodic Table of Elements

I wish I understood chemistry.

I understand something about chemicals. Water is made of Hydrogen and Oxygen. Table salt is Sodium Chloride.

Maybe it's biochemistry I don't understand. How can two people meet and have a reaction that is so bright that it emits sparks. And then, how does that reaction become a black hole – sucking life from everything around it?

How can someone you've only just met turn your world upside down and show you possibilities you'd never dreamed, or that you'd written off as impossible?

How does a heart know someone so well after just a few hours, when the mind can no someone forever and not know them at all?

How is you can go from feeling like a total fool for years, and suddenly feel like a king?

How can a single smile mean so very much?

How is it that a million words can fall far short of the meaning conveyed in one contented sigh?

How is that you can learn more about one person through a simple conversation, and never know another despite a hundred heart-to-heart talks?

I think, maybe, I know the answer after all.

More soon.