Do all relationships have a name… and does it need to have one… ???
Apart from some certain blood relationships… should all relations be named? what is the fundamental need for doing so?
I keep wondering… why should all relations necessarily have names…? Should we not just enjoy the flow…??
Sometimes I feel, apart from our blood relationships or a few specific relationships (like guru-disciple or some professional relationships), all the other people we meet, our relationship with each one of them, by default, fall under the “Friend Ship”….
What is this Friendship means? What is a friend? what is a “special” friend ?? what is more than a friend …? seems like a teenage language… but surprisingly we all use it to classify our folks…
Are we trying to give a structure or are we kind of defining boundary by giving a tag/title to the chemistry that two people are going to share…as in how one is supposed to address the other person… what should these two people talking about in general… how much to get involved… How much should be “physical involvement”…n blah.. blah ..blah…
Can there exist a relation… of pure love and care… n no malice…. With no secret agenda… with no great expectations other than a few basic courses..(like communication and sharing & caring)… both of them intend to go nowhere…. But to be with each other… there is certainly belongingness but no compulsions…. a relationship where you have nothing to lose… but just yourself…
I do not know whether to call it “Friendship” because I don’t know to what level the relations are allowed to sprout in “Friendship”… Perhaps I see much more than just friendship in this…
Can Relations not exist in absolute freedom…? I have no idea… but I see real divine beauty in such a nameless relationship…. I strongly feel all of us must have experienced this thing… maybe at different levels or with different intensities….we may not really want to accept it though… But I truly feel it does exist…
But Yes…!! one important question, are we, ourselves, at all prepared, for such kinda relationships… can we ever live in a relationship without the assurance that conventional relationships give us…
By Tejal Sharma