Over time, everything tends to break down. Rocks weather. Buildings fall into disrepair. Our bodies age, and increasingly with less and less grace. This is a concept called entropy.

In thermodynamics, entropy is the spare, unused energy that can spawn chaos. It tends to move toward places where there is no energy. In doing so, it creates chaos where there is calm, balance. This is what causes breakdown.

Let's say a wife is having a pleasant day, reading a book on the couch, and her man comes into the house angry because whatever he was doing in the garage didn't go well. And regrettably he decides to take it out on her. That's entropy. He jostles the relationship, and potentially harms it. This process might help calm the husband down, but the wife is no longer in the mood to read the book.

The Obama administration infamously declared that they never wanted to let a crisis go to waste. In other words, they wanted to take advantage of the destruction to turn that energy their way.

In capitalism, there is a concept called Creative Destruction. If you like, read the article, but the collapse of one market in capitalism generally leads to opportunity for the entrepreneurial soul. "Through this constant [upheaval] of the status quo, creative destruction provides a powerful force for making societies wealthier. It does so by making scarce resources more productive."

Where one person sees a broken down house that needs to be demolished, another sees a house that can be purchased cheaply and beautifully restored.

In the federal government right now, we're exposing the breakdown in the system. The media sees this as destructive. But we're bulldozing the status quo to remake the system in the right way.

People tend to hate change, therefore they buck the change - even if it might give a better result in the end.

Be aware of the excess energy that surrounds you. You can carefully harness that energy for the better or you can create havoc without thought. There are certainly some things that just need to be demolished. There are some things that need to be restored. It's a judgment call.

Just know that it's rare to allow a relationship to be demolished. Relationships tend to break down over time, but with care, they don't have to - they can instead become stronger and more beautiful.