Monday, March 14, 2005

Why On Earth?

I have recently been getting a lot of request from close friends, either single or in relationships asking me for my opinion on ‘relationships’. Well, Karen calls me Dr. Love, thanks to a caller’s question on a radio show that I was on, about her love life, instead of the universal concept of love that I was preaching. Anyways, I am NOT someone who knows much about relationships, but this is how I can sum it up.

We meet someone, we fall in love and we get into a relationship (marriage or not) and then here is the question ‘Why On Earth?’. Yeah! We are in this relationship because we want to share our joys and pain with the other and more importantly when the other person wants to share something with us, we have to know how to receive it, i.e. elevate their success and dilute their sorrow. As time goes by in a relationship, we have to pay more attention to how the other person reacts to things, specially things that can make them sad or ill. We have to be more aware of their insecurities, their weakness and build ourselves stronger not to tackle these moments but even better—to avoid these moments happening. Why on earth did we become one? Because we amplify the goodness, the success and the joy in each other. Why on earth are we still together? Because when are with each other, our own individual fears either get diluted or do not exist at all, thanks to the other’s presence, awareness, tenderness and love. Why on earth are we so connected? Because even though we are two different people, we breathe the same breath, we smile the same joy and we cry the same tear.

Moving forward, we have children and we dream the same dreams for them. If we seem to differ on things we talk about it and more importantly we are aware that children are a gift to us from the Almighty. We have to be the guardians, guiding them to lead their life and NOT our life and our dreams. Why on earth did we have a child? We had a child because together, we would become closer, many a times sacrifice our own moments for that of our child, inoculate discipline, spirituality and goodness so that, in giving so very much we never forget that we are just a little part of the child’s life. Why on earth are we a success? We are a success because I breathe your life knowing that you breathe mine. Imagine what would happen if we stopped!!! Love & grow. Give and give more. God bless ALL of you in your lives

Note: I have always 'Blogged' with my verses (therefore the name 'Verses Of Life'). However today I'm putting in a small text that I recently wrote for my magazine 'The Uncultured Magazine' In less than 2 weeks the second issue of this quarterly online magazine will be available and I want all of you to download the magazine and become a part of it. I want you to go further and contribute your thoughts and articles to the next issues and ofcourse tell all your friends about it. The Magazine is at www.theunculturedcompany.com and then click on the Magazine section and down load the PDF file.This thought or text needs no explaination, it is what it says. I do feel that love is beautiful and once you have it, sharing it with that special someone is even more beautiful. - Tagore Almeida -