I started, thinking I might write a short story today, or possibly finish a comic outline or issue or two, but then I realized that all I wanted to do was write, about nothing in general and everything I've been thinking about all at once.

I touched on this before, but it's something I've been really running through my head recently, relationships. And the more that one fails at them, the more revered their relationship advice becomes. Before that's dismissed as nonsense, think of it this way: are you going to listen to someone that's been dating the same person since high school (high school ending almost ten years ago) or someone that's been out there and played the field?
The answer's a bit obvious. The high school relationship person has only had to work it out with the one person, ever. While the other, though they may not have the best intentions or priorities in relationships, will likely know how to gauge a general situation and (hopefully) successfully navigate it. I know (for the latter person) this isn't always the case, they're either out to get fucked or honestly suck and inter-personal interactions that span longer than a few weeks.
Me? I know people from both camps, and the subsidiaries included in both. I myself am asked for advice when things don't seem to add up, which is what spawned this brain stemming of thoughts. I'm running on a 0/20+ losing streak, so it's strange to think that a person would trust my judgment on the matter. Even when I thought I had it right, I just flushed it with indifference, so how am I going to fix, or aid in a resolution, to their predicament being an outside source with only observation and bias to judge on?
Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered and I give my two cents and feel it to be pretty good. I shoot straight, don't set up a idol for false hope and in the end, I feel that regardless if they're happy with it or not, the advisee walks away with a dose of expectations gauged for reality.
But back to the point, how can those so jaded from the idea of a healthy relationship become sages with a wealth of knowledge that others can be so hungry for? Is it the idea of mistakes making a person understand better how the cogs of a mechanism fit and churn? That seems to be the only way it makes sense to me. A man who builds explosives for a living is going to learn fast what is more volatile aside from what isn't. And maybe that's all relationships are when we get down to the core, a concoction of elements that mix well or not at all. Then the ones that do depend upon their storing and environment before a disastrous black cloud is looming over their cinders and ashes.
It's just a though, anyway.