For me life is all about growing and becoming better than who I was yesterday. We all need to grow from where we are. We all need to feel this feeling of satisfaction. Broadening my knowledge continuously and becoming a respectable person is surely a tough job, but I want to dwell on the possibilities. I always find these lines from the prophet so powerful and mysterious. They provide a deep sense of connection between two individual. I do hope it can change how you have viewed relationships in life.
The Prophet:
Let there is spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though, they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together.
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
When I was a kid, I used to think that there is no such thing as love for couples and all. My dad was an employee of government organization. He was transferred far from our home town. He came home on vacations only. I used to feel that love is for those who don’t understand being alone. As time moved on I grew. Dad made arrangements to come and work in our town and I started to realize that there’s love. There is need for love in everyone’s life. I started to have feelings for a girl in our class. On a tour to national park, she held my hand and she leaned on me. We did not say a word. I looked her and she had tears all over her eyes. I turned to towards the window. I wanted to hide my tears. But we broke up with in months. There’s only one reason why we parted, it’s because she was too uncomfortable to be with me when everyone around her was forcing her to be away form me. But she is still in contact with me. We are close friends. I know her completely but it’s very hard for me to understand her.
I wanted to find meaning of closeness in every relationship. But I realized that some meanings are good when we know nothing about it. Some meanings are explained well when they are understood but not said. We can be in relation but never find true realization of belongingness. We can hold each other’s hand but never understand the feeling of comfort. As I moved on I find her attractive. She is attractive but I always had this feeling of being in closed confinement when I am with her. She still complains me that I don’t tell her everything that is in mind. I want to keep things within myself too. But it’s not that I am introvert. I do have to explain things.
Now that I understand that there is growth where ever we go and who ever we are with, life has changed. I do have immense respect for her and I do enjoy her company. So how are you finding the mixes between love and separateness?
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