A relationship is a bond, an association between two individuals. It’s a link that keeps them connected. It’s a knot that keeps the two, tightly tied together! As man is a social animal, he is always in need of someone to closely associate with, someone to share smiles, a shoulder to shed tears, a hand to help in times of need, a hug to heal his broken heart.

Family comes first for any individual. It comprises of his parents and relatives. They are the measure of one’s earnings as their number is what counts during difficult times. Money cannot compensate for loneliness. It cannot help you get out of depression. It can’t encourage you when you are feeling low. Your relationships with people and your relatives are the ones who play a vital role here. Those who are blessed with great human beings as close relatives understand what relationships mean! They live their relations and can boast of having tasted real happiness!

A bond of relationships is polymorphic. It manifests itself in so many forms! Take the relationship between you and your parents which is synonymous to selfless love, or take the example of the love and care between brothers and sisters. They share the same bond of love. Friendship stands as an example of two individuals always there for each other, together at all times! One’s relationship with his life partner comes next. It’s a lifetime commitment to be with each other, for each other! It’s again a friendship wherein the two should be compatible with each other. One’s relationships with other relatives are as important. They may be inherently acquired. But as an individual rapport develops between these individuals, their relationship grows, matures and strengthens. They develop an urge to do something for each other, to stand by each other. On starting to know each other, they develop faith in each other and develop a mutual understanding.

We know of compatibility in a relationship and how important it is. But going further, I can say that compatibility comes in two shades. One is seemingly compatible and the other is, in the real sense. Two individual parts that fit together to become ‘one’ are compatible. The one that seems compatible is the one in which one part fits into the other. They only appear compatible. But it signifies a total dissolution of one individual into the other.

It is complete surrender. But real compatibility is when two parts fit into each other. This is when; the two respect each other’s identities, give each other space yet remain tied as one!
Understanding each other, which begins from knowing each other well, forms a fundamental constituent of any relationship. Knowing each other means; knowing the strengths and weaknesses of one another, complimenting the strengths and compensating for each other’s weaknesses.

It implies accepting the individual as he is. It implies maintaining the relationship and trying to strengthen it. Relationships are like covalent bonds where the atoms share the ions to come close. The sharing is from both sides. Similarly an urge to be associated playing on both sides keeps the relationship strong. When the two in relation understand one another, it means that they can communicate well. What one says, the other comprehends and sometimes even without one saying, the other understands. That’s real ‘communication’!
Relationships are knots, one wants to remain tied in. They are one’s support systems. They fight with solitude. They emerge out of the soft feelings of love and care of a human mind. Human’s need to be with people he loves, gives rise to relationships. One learns to socialize, to share and care. He learns to give, he learns to live.

To say it in short, “The knots of relationships help make life worth living, They render a realization that life’s all about ‘giving’!”