The Great Simplifier

There must be some mathematical equation, a logarithm or algorithm (whatever those mean), which describes the progression of friendship.

I know close proximity is involved. And frequency and duration of contact is incredibly influential. Similar preoccupations, interests, et cetera are foundational (and, perhaps, foundational only -- a constant variable or some type of minimum). And context. O, context, yes!

There have to be some numbers hiding in there somewhere. A shape or graph at least (maybe one of those nifty three dimensional ones I consistently fail to grasp cognitively).

And there is subtraction. There is room for dips in the curve. You can know someone forever and then lose touch -- what happens to your friendship then? What number can be equated to it? And multiplication. You can meet someone and subvert frequency and duration -- jump right up the chart or scale or page. Where ten minutes equals a hundred years, but a hundred years doesn't equal ten minutes. And I'm sure addition is simple and division quite complex. What sort of derivatives can tangle themselves into the mix?

I am confident that words and numbers can express anything. I don't believe they have limits. I need to see my life on a page, simple and clean. In neat columns and rows with constants and variables and solutions.

A place for everything and everything in its place.