Well, today I am not going to talk about the usual man-woman relationship, advices and discussions about which are so ubiquitous. Instead, I'd wanna talk about the everyday relations that we are in.
First, I would start with our relationship with parents. I think this is the most complicated relationship that one can ever have, and at the same time it is the simplest and the most natural relationship that can ever be-mostly owing to its duration. Parents are the first relation that we ever be in, and it goes through so many facets, with time. It starts with the total innocent surrender and trust of childhood, goes into the rebellion of teenage, acceptance, understanding of our youth and finally circles back to the total trust by the end of it.
Next, our teachers. Back in school, remember, how we used to label the teachers- as to who is soft, who is dangerous, who is to be absolutely avoided, and who is the one who can always be dependent on to be the fair? No matter how those teachers back in our school days or college days were, all of them have affected our lives.
Our friends. Remember that friend, who helped you quietly when everyone else was laughing at you, or would tell you the harsh truth on your face when you least want to hear it, or the one who curses you for yours stupid plan but helps you anyway just because you are a friend? You end up becoming best friends. And that friend, who was the most stylish, a tad more mature than you, always sniggering at you, and too self confident to be comfortable for you? You don't understand it then, you have this feeling of inadequacy, but later you understand that all those nights when you fell asleep worrying about his/her panache, all those tears in the bathroom, were all waste of time?? You grow up and realize you are so much better off than them. Now, that is also a relationship- one which makes you understand the difference between right and wrong, which stuff is important and which is not.
And then, comes the romantic relationships. Now, there is so much you can say about them, that people since time immemorial have started and still they haven't finished saying about it- and nor will they ever. So, I'd not even try.
Although these relationships have different colors and tenures, somewhere all of them are same. Somewhere, there is always a relation of give and take- even with our parents. With our friends, definitely, and with everyone else we come across. The autowalla, our boss, your colleague, your regular grocery store-everywhere. Somewhere, we all think alike, and behave alike, and yet, they are so very different from each other. That's the reason you can label someone s your friend and some as mere acquaintances, even if you are spending half an hour together smoking outside your office. When you think about it, the word "relation" defines so much, that its not even possible to describe all of them. And since, our lives are an aggregate of these various relationships, we really live such a colorful life-every minute of it....
First, I would start with our relationship with parents. I think this is the most complicated relationship that one can ever have, and at the same time it is the simplest and the most natural relationship that can ever be-mostly owing to its duration. Parents are the first relation that we ever be in, and it goes through so many facets, with time. It starts with the total innocent surrender and trust of childhood, goes into the rebellion of teenage, acceptance, understanding of our youth and finally circles back to the total trust by the end of it.
Next, our teachers. Back in school, remember, how we used to label the teachers- as to who is soft, who is dangerous, who is to be absolutely avoided, and who is the one who can always be dependent on to be the fair? No matter how those teachers back in our school days or college days were, all of them have affected our lives.
Our friends. Remember that friend, who helped you quietly when everyone else was laughing at you, or would tell you the harsh truth on your face when you least want to hear it, or the one who curses you for yours stupid plan but helps you anyway just because you are a friend? You end up becoming best friends. And that friend, who was the most stylish, a tad more mature than you, always sniggering at you, and too self confident to be comfortable for you? You don't understand it then, you have this feeling of inadequacy, but later you understand that all those nights when you fell asleep worrying about his/her panache, all those tears in the bathroom, were all waste of time?? You grow up and realize you are so much better off than them. Now, that is also a relationship- one which makes you understand the difference between right and wrong, which stuff is important and which is not.
And then, comes the romantic relationships. Now, there is so much you can say about them, that people since time immemorial have started and still they haven't finished saying about it- and nor will they ever. So, I'd not even try.
Although these relationships have different colors and tenures, somewhere all of them are same. Somewhere, there is always a relation of give and take- even with our parents. With our friends, definitely, and with everyone else we come across. The autowalla, our boss, your colleague, your regular grocery store-everywhere. Somewhere, we all think alike, and behave alike, and yet, they are so very different from each other. That's the reason you can label someone s your friend and some as mere acquaintances, even if you are spending half an hour together smoking outside your office. When you think about it, the word "relation" defines so much, that its not even possible to describe all of them. And since, our lives are an aggregate of these various relationships, we really live such a colorful life-every minute of it....
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