A Musing

Every relationship in your life needs effort, from everyone involved in it. Be it the relationship with your parents, your children, siblings, friends, work or, your partner. Basically any loved one. When everything in any relationship seems to be working "automatically", sit back, and take a look at it. There's a lot of effort behind this automation. Everyone involved is making time, stretching their boundaries of understanding, acceptance, flexibility, cooperation and adaptability. There is some acknowledgement, reciprocation, response. And the only thing that makes all of this effort invisible is love. You don't mind working for what you love. You love it, you want to keep it going. And so, it becomes effortless.

The times when the effort become more visible than the love, we tend to leave the relationships to time. And that's when we lose them. And someday, if the relationship ever meant anything to us, we regret not trying to make it work. Someday, we all look back and say, wish I'd given love a chance. Wish I had gone that extra mile.

Because time never heals, only love can.