Life on earth has a limited time. Our experiences within that lifespan will never be as long as our lives with the most profound experience being the first drop of milk we suckled from our mother’s breast. The lessons drawn are many but, undoubtedly, the connection of life outside the womb was been established then.
Over time, we have come into contact with many people, from our near relatives, the doctors and nurses, the friends, teachers and so many others. The inevitable part of life is that people will be around us. The important fact means then that we have to develop the means to understand the relationships and we must be able to communicate. Along the way there will be tests of our relationship and the value we place on these relationships will determine their longevity. The value we place on a relationship will mean that should there be strife then there will also be a solution to protect the relationship or, the worst case scenario, that we break relationships.
The idea of breaking relationship has, most definitely, a negative connotation. It may well speak to our own character, i.e. that we recognise an evil and we remove ourselves from it or we admit to our own shortcomings and mend relationships. However, were we to define evil as anything bad then no relationship will survive. We will show good character when we don’t seek to break relationships but rather find a path that will at least leave a thread. This thread may be able to survive over time and become stronger. This thread is by at least “staying in touch”, being within the range of communication. Too easily, with modern technology and smartphones, we block people on social media and deny others any ability to reach us. This is the negativity that we hold within and we display this irrational behaviour on the outside. Don’t kill the hope for lasting peace by the click of a button – don’t exit chat groups or block people on a whim.
If you are reading this and there is even a slightest soft spot in your heart, unblock those you have blocked just so that there may be a thread – a thread of hope. Perhaps you are in the right in your view on another, but by blocking them, you have closed a door while they may become remorseful and look to express it to you at some time. Stay in touch by the simplest means, and next time you are more hopeful, dare to type “hello”, and you may not send it immediately, but you may eventually send it. We all have an abundance of good within ourselves. We have built relationships from the moment we set foot in this world. Therein is the lesson – Life is about relationships. Stay in touch.
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