There are two halves to a zip and a zipper. To look at each half of the zip is the same, but really they are not -- they are different, they have to be for the zipper to be able to connect them. A relationship works the same way. Two people who seemingly appear the same - they are two human beings, two people coinhabiting the world, with generally similar pursuits - such as the two sides of the zip. They exist to come together! Yet they are different - they have different grooves, the zips that is. And the two people have different strengths and weaknesses and attributes and gifts that they bring to the relationship. When they are together they balance out, they work in harmony...
The two zips are better together than apart, they can't function as they should unless they are brought together by the zipper: A driving force that links them in such way that binds out the cold, that connects them - the two zips in a cohesive fashion. Notice how one of the zips holds more weight, at the bottom of the zip is the zipper and the and part to join the two side together. Often in a relationship one of the individuals brings that connecting force, the zip...
Now the zip cannot act alone, it requires the action of "something"/"someone" to bring the two together, to make the connection, to pull the zip up...in my perhaps overzealous attempt to find connections between a zip and a relationship, I am going to go even further and parallel God to that outside force, and therefore He is the one that draws the two together...
Even more a relationship takes time before it is fully defined, before the two are fully connected, fully aware of the other's "grooves" - their idiosyncransies, their strenghts, weaknesses, tones of voice, moods, etc. Just like a zip - the zipper has to move up, just because the two zips have been connected, doesn't mean that they traversed the whole way...
Ok, well those are my musings of the evening...
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