Abstract Relationships.
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A verbatim translation of my original Hindi post.
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Any and every relationship is circumstantial, and though defining a relationship is a tough and perhaps also an absurd attempt, whatever be it, the relationship defines its own limits. Dealing with them within those limits may be howsoever painful and difficult or pleasant, comfortable and easy, when the relation breaks or ends up, is no cause of grief or hurt, and even if there is pain, there is at least no complaint of the kind.
This not only helps greatly in improving and enhancing the quality of our relationship at the level of the family, society, or in the political or other fields like business, commerce, education, we deal with, but also minimizes the risks or dangers that we may come across because of our misunderstandings or lack of good communication-skills.
But is the importance of relationship(s) confined only within the periphery of our coming into and dealings with the contacts with the humans only? Are we not in a rather deeper and closer, intimate contact with the world every moment? The only difference is that we have much interest, attraction and inclination for those things which in our view, we think / find far more important. But again, besides all those things, don’t we have even more deeper touch with our own thoughts, fears, hopes, imaginations of an assumed future, or the sweet and sour, bitter or acrid memories of the past which we keep giving reality, though exists no-where? Doesn’t a relationship which we give utmost importance presently, become such a spoilsport within the fraction of a second that calling it a silly sentimentality, or an unnecessary trouble, we at once just discard, throw it away? Understanding well, where-from the ways of a relationship start and where-to they grow and reach out, we can’t do injustice to them. This may be rather difficult but very much needed also, if we seek to have any relationship with harmony.
And what about our relationships or rather ‘relatedness’ with those things of ‘Abstract’ kind which we name ‘Art’, ‘Beauty’, ‘Peace’, ‘Bliss’, ‘God’, ‘Life’, ‘Love’…,
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A verbatim translation of my original Hindi post.
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Any and every relationship is circumstantial, and though defining a relationship is a tough and perhaps also an absurd attempt, whatever be it, the relationship defines its own limits. Dealing with them within those limits may be howsoever painful and difficult or pleasant, comfortable and easy, when the relation breaks or ends up, is no cause of grief or hurt, and even if there is pain, there is at least no complaint of the kind.
This not only helps greatly in improving and enhancing the quality of our relationship at the level of the family, society, or in the political or other fields like business, commerce, education, we deal with, but also minimizes the risks or dangers that we may come across because of our misunderstandings or lack of good communication-skills.
But is the importance of relationship(s) confined only within the periphery of our coming into and dealings with the contacts with the humans only? Are we not in a rather deeper and closer, intimate contact with the world every moment? The only difference is that we have much interest, attraction and inclination for those things which in our view, we think / find far more important. But again, besides all those things, don’t we have even more deeper touch with our own thoughts, fears, hopes, imaginations of an assumed future, or the sweet and sour, bitter or acrid memories of the past which we keep giving reality, though exists no-where? Doesn’t a relationship which we give utmost importance presently, become such a spoilsport within the fraction of a second that calling it a silly sentimentality, or an unnecessary trouble, we at once just discard, throw it away? Understanding well, where-from the ways of a relationship start and where-to they grow and reach out, we can’t do injustice to them. This may be rather difficult but very much needed also, if we seek to have any relationship with harmony.
And what about our relationships or rather ‘relatedness’ with those things of ‘Abstract’ kind which we name ‘Art’, ‘Beauty’, ‘Peace’, ‘Bliss’, ‘God’, ‘Life’, ‘Love’…,
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