So I've known for a long time that even though breaking - mending is often seen as a pair of dual working, equal forces of magic, they're not. They're more than opposing forces, they're separate processes. They need each other in theory. Act independient of each other in practice. They're less like dual elemental building blocks of creation and more like two possible pathways that said creation can take, regardless of what elemental blocks make them up. One of those pathways leads towards more creative, additive, orderly forms, the other towards more destructive, reductive and chaotic forms.
And that's evident in how, for some reason, mending takes way more effort than breaking. If they were a perfect mirror of each other, they'd take the same effort, would have the same chance of happening naturally, that is, without conscious intervention, and they simply don't. To destroy something is surprisingly easy, can even be accidental and require 0 thought whatsoever, and is way more likely to succeeded than mending. To create order necessarily takes conscious effort. To stitch anything back together requires way more skill than it took to break that same thing.
At least 99% of the times. There's this 1 (one) exception that's very interesting to analyze but we'll chat about that at a different time.
I HATE that I found a GREAT analogy for this in physics and now I have a reason to study physics more in detail. To use these particular laws and theories as similes to figure out the details of my own theory, and it's a great thing and all, BUT I HATE IT HERE.
Little disclaimer: I am not saying the laws of physics will explain why this is true or why this happens, I'm not even saying it's true. it's just the system that I work with, my understanding on my own cosmology, and the fact that I like to compare similar processes (while taking into account their differences and keeping in mind they don't have to correspond at all) to come to my own conclusions, then go about testing it in practice.
