The Truth About Relationships

Relationships are a hard thing. And to each generation, I am sure; they seem harder than they were before. This is because each set of generations brings with it a special twist and complication to their relationships. The poison of our generation: Time, or the lack thereof.

The time crunch in this era of instant coffee people has made every relationship we hold dear to our heart, that much difficult to nurture, be it with our parents, spouse, children, relatives, friends, colleagues and even our bosses. Instead of good old phone calls we do text messages now, instead of dropping in we do gtalking or yahoo messengering, instead of a nice cup of coffee and getting to know what’s new, we do emails, and facebooks, and orkuts.

Yes we have transformed. And I think it is all okay, until we don’t start taking things for granted. It was a Maya Angelou quote that changed the perspective of things for me, especially in terms of family.

“if you have one smile to give, give it to your loved ones…don’t be 0000000”

I found this to be a great truth for my life. Relationships are meant to last, we are meant to nurture them and fall back upon them when time arises. Yes, the dynamics are changing, and we have learnt to adapt to them and work well with them, but the basic underlying need for human relationships hasn’t changed. We need to realize this fact today, that we do need our family and friends more than before, and we need to let them know that we care of them.

And so, after reading this little piece, I hope we all can ‘uncripple’ our emotions once again, that we can let our constipated love to just flow free, and be aware to be thankful for who we are, and what we have.