Relationship

Relationship is vital in the encouragement of unity within a group - a group of two or a group of seventy two. Relationship can not be analysed logically or rationally with any real merit. For relationship seems to be found more in the realm of artistic flow.

Ask a writer about inspiration, ask a painter about muse, ask a chef about the process and you will find that most passions in life resonate from one's existence outward, not from the rationally accepted "Group Think" inward. These "Few", seem to marinate in an organic growth that ignites their zeal. Their fervor cannot be compartmentalized into any one specific reason or even groups of reasons approved or unapproved by the outside. They have indeed harnessed the gift of losing themselves in the harmony of the present. They are effected by the past, however only enough to fulfil the present. The may acknowledge the future but for the moment they are enslaved to the real. They do not acknowledge the theoretical.

Now, how is their dance translated into relationships?

Well, experiences shape our lives and assist in defining our passions. Our experiences fruit the interests in our lives that then find their expression in our present countenance and demeanor. If one enjoys family, then the other will see this truth permeating outward. If one loves solitude then evidence will be apparent. If one thrives on competition, all observers will be able to deduct this trait.

These mannerisms discussed are our advertisements, if you will, to our inner passions or desires. These advertisements allow others to pick and choose weather or not relationship is viable. These advertisements convey weather or not we are a writer, painter, or chef.

Are two people going to click? Watch their 30 second interactions and you will begin to scrape the surface on their relationability. Watch their lifelong spontaneous connections and you will begin to taste their specific flavor, their composition, their song.

People are not for consumption only - Please do not attempt relationship for some egotistical benefit - This attempt will be a perversion of what truly is possible...

People, although relatively plain, are made for much grander purpose. C. S. Lewis states this fact wonderfully in - The Weight of Glory.

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would strongly be tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."

The relationships that we cultivate now in this present world will follow us into the next. The Spirit will survive - the ego will not. Learn your own spirit so that you can advertise appropriately. Learn others so that unity will flourish. There are no common men, simply common relationships.