The Mixtures of Life

I remember sixth grade science, a time when we were just starting to learn new and exciting things using chemicals and matter. However, the one experiment that vividly stands out in my memory is one that simply used only water and cooking oil. The days leading up to the experiment we discussed the differences between heterogenous and homogenous substances. It absolutely amazed me how two very similar substances would not even begin to mix. It was like magic to a bunch of sixth graders! Sometimes we are so sure that two things should mix. Regardless if we are an expert on the subject or just a beginner. I still feel as if oil and water should somehow mix together even though I have seen the result time and time again. In the real world things naturally mix. Peanut butter and jelly, milk and chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter and chocolate. Those are just a few of my favorite foods to mix, but food is such a boring mixture. Look at a friendship that cannot be broken. A love between a man and a woman that can't be tarnished. And even a man's best friend, his dog. Mixtures are a beautiful and special thing. It's like adding seasoning to a secret recipe. The recipe needs the seasoning to thrive. As do we. We need to form mixtures with people and develop our relationships into our own "secret recipe." But as the water and the oil time and time again will not mix, sometimes we don't mix with certain people, which results with us trying to change ourselves in order to "mix" with the cool group. We change the way we dress, our hair, the way we talk, and even how we act. We do everything in our power to be "water." We want to smell like water, look like water, and even taste like water, but when the two are together there still is water and oil. Not just water. Did you know that oil is being used to grow hair now? And that certain kinds of oils keep our world in operation mode? It adds flavor to our foods, and allows us to cook more efficiently. Seventy percent of the world is covered with water which makes water way more common then oil; however 96.5 percent of that water is unusable and undrinkable. Water is so common but yet so unspecial. So don't change for anyone. Mix with the ones who you mix with. Be who you were meant to be and put your "oil" to good use.