There's got to be a 7 on your pH scale

I feel like this blog is becoming super whiny and negative but no worries, life will recycle back to the more humorous positive sarcasm.

My topic today I am basing off a combination of Jekyll and Hyde along with the pH scale

How are these in any way connected you may wonder? Well really, like most of my ideas, it's quite obvious.

On the pH scale you range from 0-14, lower numbers being acidic and higher numbers being basic while the normal point of equality rides right at 7.

Jekyll and Hyde create the same situation without the neutrality in the middle. Dr. Jekyll ranges in the higher numbers-- he's mature, educated, calm. Then there is Mr. Hyde who resides in the lower numbers-- he lashes out and wreaks havoc and confusion.

But they're the same body. I would not say the same person since I see the term "person" as having an individual identity which obvious, they have two. 

What is the point to this spiel on chemistry and a classic novel? 

The point is that I am ranting on personalities again. Who people are and what they do.

Now there are two different situations I want to bring up that are exemplified by Jekyll and Hyde--

1) A literal change in personality: being one kind of person and then changing your life so you're practically unknown to your previous friends and relationships

2) A difference in who you say you are and what you do: sure you're a perfect charmer in words but your actions don't come close to reaching that point.

So let's start with #1: 

People change. It can be a good thing or a bad thing. Some people can be in a bad point in their life and then one day-- something clicks. Maybe they met someone and there was that instant connection. Maybe they found a new purpose or idea that they became interested in and pursued it. Maybe they just got tired of dealing with crap and they walked away. Who knows-- it's different for every person. But now, they are a different person. A change in personality to the point that old associates would hardly recognize who they have now become. 

So they build a new life. . . new friends. . . new personality.

Then one day it all changes again. Some event occurs and it causes them to return to their previous lifestyle and personality or maybe even an entirely new stage. And now, their most recent friends and relationships don't recognize them anymore. 

Each time this change in personality occurs, a part of your life is lost-- and most importantly, those people in your life are lost. Hey maybe it really isn't the most important part to some but for others it is.

I almost see it as death-- like that person I knew and loved is lost somewhere inside but I can't find them anymore.

Just like Jekyll and Hyde-- both personalities were from the same body but when one personality was active, the other was suppressed into an unknown world of death.

#2: 

There are people who are simply fantabulous at dreaming up ideas and things they want to be and want to have and want to do with their lives. There are those people and then there are the people who actually achieve those things. It's so hard to accept when you realize that you've fallen for charming words with no strength behind them. That the person you are terribly in love with doesn't actually exist. That they're only an imagined ideal. Again, it's the idea of two different personalities in the same person. There is the person they really are-- the dreamer. Then there is the person they want to and claim to be-- the achiever. But they cannot exist as one unless they are altered to a 7 pH level.

To all the Jekyll and Hydes-- sometimes it's nice to find a seven.

A lucky number 7.