Nurture Your Relationships

Due to heavy rains you may have seen massive trees falling down – sometimes with disastrous consequences to people, vehicles or houses. Similarly, it is said that concreting around the tree roots prevents their healthy growth and they die. At times you may have seen otherwise healthy looking trees getting eaten up inside by white ants, and then the hollow trunk collapses one day.

I have often likened Relationships to plants and trees. It is not enough to start a relationship, as it is not sufficient to plant a sapling. One has to nurture it, very carefully for the first few years, and often much later too. Healthy trees and relationships last our lifetime, un-cared relationships can come crashing down when we least expect them to. Look around and you will see more relationships crashing around you than trees – monsoon or no monsoon.

Let us admit and accept that we cannot live alone in this world. We need to mentally and emotionally bond with at least a few people. I am reminded of a touching quote:

If you want to walk quick, walk alone
But if you want to walk far, walk together

Often we lament that we have not been favoured with good relationships. We resent those who we have and we lament those we have lost. But if you understand the following truth of life, you will never be short of warm, loving and long-term relationships:
Time decides whom you will meet in life .... Your heart decides whom you want in life .... But your behavior decides who will stay in your life.