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What are relationships these days?
Are relationships these days any more than a transaction?
To me relationships have always been a subject of understanding, research, reflection and thought. What I see is that these are very strange in every aspect whether it is personal or social. These are very hard to understand, but what I have seen is that a true and genuine relationship is very simple and straightforward. Because true relationships are free of expectations, they are pure love and bliss. Nothing is expected from you return, none of the worldly drama. Presence of this in life is magical, not even a word needs to be said as it is not formed out of any materialistic expectations. These type relationships are very rare and only few are lucky enough to have one.
Most people are in relationships because of some expectations, they connect with others for wealth, power, or influence, it is only to gratify their personal self-interest. These relationships are missing the basic virtue of truthfulness and does not last very long. Relationships formed on agenda are destined to break, they will not last long. Some say the true relationships are the relationships of soul, but I hesitate to accept this philosophy, because the ones own have seen their soul or met their soul are just pure love and bliss, they don’t see others any different from them, and there are very few of this kind, 1 in millions.