When bonding, atoms seek to achieve a stable?

There is noble gas coming out of your mother’s a**. I know bc I was eating it the other night

Process of elimination here can lead you to the correct answer. What are things we know? Noble gasses don’t bind with anything. So, that one isn’t it. Halogen doesn’t have any business being on this kind if question. That’s not it. What’s next? So we know that atoms like to be complete but we also know they’re lazy. They want either low ionization or electronegativity. Now you have a 50/50 shot of getting it right but i’m not giving you the answer

A noble gas configuration

Explanation:

Atoms try to gain stability by lowering their energy and by attaining electronic configuration of the nearest noble gas

Which stable to they seek