Low Tide.

"Remember: No matter where you go, there you are." - Earl Mac Rauch

Heard an interesting thing today. Was watching "Real Time with Bill Maher" not too long ago and I couldn't help but be caught off guard by something interesting that Maher pointed out: A recent study conducted by Harvard University found that the longer two people know each other, the more they dislike each other. Sad thing is: I wish I could disagree with their findings, but I simply can't.

I look back on the relationships I've had with the people in my life and the further I go, the more peaceful I remember things being with each and every one of them at some earlier point. I think that time has an inevitable way of deteriorating the friendships and such that we create with the people in our lives on an overwhelming scale. It's quite depressing when I really think about it.

I mean, they say that we make our assumptions on the people we meet in the first initial thirty seconds of meeting them, but somehow I find myself thinking that if that statement is somehow true in any way, shape, or form then it's even worse - on a larger scale - than growing to dislike each other more and more as time goes on. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if we make our first few assumptions about others with little to no data behind our feelings, then we only fool ourselves into thinking that we truly do like others when we actually don't.

At some level, on the other hand, if people naturally grow to have disdain for others as time goes on, then that would mean that there's an invisible middle man that - if seen earlier - would've saved us all alot of time.

Perhaps people are truly savage in nature and we only fool ourselves into thinking otherwise.... I'd say there's lots of evidence of that in the world today.