Water under relationSHIPS

Defining relationships can never be enough, because no three people understand, look, or experience it in the same way. Two people may match its meaning but the third and beyond have their own interpretations, but let’s attempt reviewing it anyways. Relationship; the way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected + a continuing and often committed association between two or more people, as in a family, friendship, marriage, partnership, or other interpersonal link in which the participants have some degree of influence on each other's thoughts, feelings and actions.

The ocean of life has its underwater currents which do wreck some relationShips. The water represents life and the ship represents the human. Tide and time have always had their say and are never the same either calm or rough. But staying afloat requires self-engineering where all on board the relationShip have to navigate it well during and after a storm. A management degree and training sets parameters and helps understand the performance and role of a relationShip manager in the corporate world. But in social life relationShips the relevance & consequences largely differ. Most relations socially are meant to be on lifelong voyages under different weather conditions with many moments of drifting away, but steering back on course and staying afloat each time is the need.

Is it an art, science, skill or simply just a blessed mindful that makes the relationShip work. What keeps these ships (humans) afloat and on course every voyage. A learning finding the mantra of the beauty beholding such relationship in families, friends, owners – employees, partners, colleagues, associates, neighbours, service provider etc.

What belonging ‘They’ had…. for us to learn.

‘They’ valued relationship not for how much happiness comes with the other but how much one feels alone without the other.

‘They’ held their relation in a manner it never ends, because they kept putting the same effort in keeping it as they did to Win it.

‘They’ realized relationship remains great with two things; finding out the similarities and thereafter respecting the differences.

‘They’ were not jealous or insecure to realise deep relationships of their partners with others. A matured relationship knows the Platonic relation in which two people share a close bonding, deep friendship but which is different from a romantic or sexual relationShip. Plato the ancient philosopher student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle believed that platonic love could bring people closer to a divine ideal.

‘They’ all knew to be the imperfect ones, refusing to give up on each other overcoming doubts and ego.

‘They’ understood affection is greater than perfection and probably a few faults is part of all. They found a way to make it work stay on course, each with their compass to guide.

‘They’ did what they had to discreetly, without any expectations or considerations of the others doing. The other did the same and the relationShip kept sailing.

And importantly ‘They’ immersed themselves with their divine’s teachings. Gurbani teaches to be in ‘Rehat’ the spiritual discipline at all times. Guru Gobind Singh ji said “Discipline (Rehat) is beloved to me, not the Sikh himself. ‘Rehat’, your relationShip with the Guru secures your being over the ocean of life, binding worldly relations in fair means distancing overly reactions of attachments that humans tend to fall for.

These learning build confidence to manage old and pick another relationShip to find Godly presence sharing & caring with them.

Never has water been the reason for ships to sink.

It is always the fault in ships that becomes

the reason for water to enter it.