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Do you think/feel that all relationships have an equal shelf-life? And if so should it be everlasting?

I don't believe all relationships have an equal shelf-life. I also believe that in our lives we have a vast array of different relationships. I have a relationships with everyone in my immediate life, my family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and many more I am sure I am missing. I suppose for me the "ideal" relationship with regard to mate or spouse "should" be everlasting, but as all too many of us are aware that as time advances and people and circumstances change. Sometimes we grow closer together and sometimes we grow apart. The direction in which we grow or gravitate has an effect on how "everlasting" that relationship will be.

Or do different relationships have differing shelf-lives?

We change jobs and neighbors move or we move and although we may have the best intentions of remaining "close" life chugs on and things change, circumstances change, priorities change and we may drift, thus shortening the shelf-life of certain relationships. I don't feel it's necessarily a bad thing. As people come into our lives I feel they impact us whether we are aware of it or not. It's those "impacts" that change and shape who we are, how we react and the choices we make in our day to day lives.