Can of soda

I tried for hours to come up with another topic of my own, I'm sorry that I couldn't make that happen, so I stole your idea. I hope you don't mind.


Relationships are often like a can of soda, if there is too much stress and shaking the can blow up in your face. From the outside they both seem cold and hard, but once you get inside, oh how sweet they can be. Often they get crumpled and thrown away with the rest of the recyclables. Relationships take a lot of time, care, and energy to make work, but quite often energy and motives are mis placed and the blow up right in your face.

Many relationships there is much unneeded stress that goes into a relationship, it stirs up the emotions, and as soon as the couple tries to talk things out there too busy shaking up the relationship rather than solidifying it. If the proper energy is asserted, the can will open right up fiz a little bit, and then go down smoothly. However if the can is opened incorrectly, whether you shook the can or not, it can still explode right in your face. There is the right way to deal with relationships, such as being empathic and being willing to talk things out and reason with your partner. Then there is the wrong way, which is yelling and swearing, and throwing the can around to get it to open. For myself, I prefer to build relationships rather than break them.

From the outside many relationships seem to be cold and hard, and they try not to let anyone in. At the same time, once they do let you in how delicious they can be. Speaking in reference to my roommates, Aaron and Lizzie, they can both be very cold when you first meet them, but to people that know them, and to people that they allow in, they are actually quite friendly. The hard and cold shell is only a defense, to protect who and what they are, innocent, naive individuals. Each individual is protecting something, but not every relationship is as cold and hard up front as the relationship that my roommates share.

Many relationships get crumpled and tossed aside once all the valuable nutrients have been gulped down, but the relationships that last are the ones that refill there can of soda, and have a constant flow of communication. Rather than having to reopen a new can every day, the healthy relationships open their can once, and keep refilling it with a steady flow of communication. Every relationship has valuable qualities, but the big difference between a healthy relationship and an unhealthy relationship is, are both partners drinking the same amount of soda, or is one of the individuals gulping it all down and then crumpling the can up then handing it to their partner. The difference between the two is obvious, which one will last and which one will be tossed aside. The key is finding someone to share life with, not someone that will be selfish and take advantage of their partners can of soda.

So if you have found your favorite can of soda, and you got free lifetime refills, I salute you. For the rest of us that are still searching, open up a little bit and be more caring, sharing, and friendly while at the same time, stand up for what is right in this world. Life is not easy, and finding someone that can make your life easier, even the little things, like opening up a can of soda, help them out, be there for them, because in the end all your good deeds will not go unnoticed.