The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
—Anthony Robbins,
motivational speaker
Whenever you have more than one thing, you have a relationship. There is nothing in this world that is not related to something else. A person alone has a relationship with his or her environment. Two people, who are otherwise strangers, have a relationship if they are in the same room. There are all types of relationships in this world, and all degrees of relationships. Some are short-lived, but intense. Others are casual, but long-lasting. Some are of our own choosing, others are forced upon us. Some are positive, and some negative. Relationships are associations, connections, and they are, in the end, what life is really all about.