Long Distance Relationship
Life is all about relationships. We see various kinds of bondings and emotional connects between different life species — animals, humans everyone. Family ties, friendships, companionship are seen in various animal groups as we see in humans. Man is a social animal and it’s our relationship that keeps us emotionally engaged and helps us move ahead in our journey of life.
Relationships in humans can have numerous flavors — parent child, grandparents grandchildren, boss subordinates, friends, romantic relationships, kinship, team mates, colleagues, in laws, neighbors, acquaintances, relationship with our pets…the list goes on & on. Each relationship is enriching and unique in its own way, we cannot compare any two of them. Having said that, one of the most involved relationship we have in our lives is with our life partner. Many a time our partner or spouse double up as our soul mate. We get to share our lives with each other, our dreams , aspirations, likes dislikes, moods, idiosyncrasies. Our whole personal life kind of revolves around each other, it looks like a concerted effort on the part of two people to face the world and life’s trials and tribunals jointly.
My life is no different. Me and my wife shared an invigorating relationship. Both of us enjoyed the good life, we liked to party and live it up, were fond of good food & drinks and experimented often with new joints and places , we were fond of travelling and explored quite a few new places, we both had empathy and cared for the under served people. We had our share of fights, misunderstandings and all that but at the end of the day we were there for each other through thick & thin. We shared our dreams, whether they were material possessions like a new property or a vehicle or visiting one of the places in the bucket list or sponsoring children in an orphanage.
It’s often said like everything else, all relationships come with an expiry date. However, my views are a bit different. While most of the connections in our life may cease to exist after a certain period of time as we progress to a different environment or context, connections for genuine soul mates never really end, not even with death . Today my wife is no more there having completed her journey on this earth 6 years back. However, she is still very much there in my thoughts, in my life journey. Though physically she is no more present beside me in this world, our relationship has not ended with her passing away. I feel her presence in my daily life. Sometimes, I feel I get guidance from her when I am unable to decide on anything. The relationship has transformed from being both mentally and physically connected to now being completely mentally connected and being a guiding force in my life.
Many people go through Long Distance relationship wherein their partners are physically far away , maybe in a different city or a country or a continent for a long period of time due to various life circumstances. In my case, my partner is in a different world or dimension altogether. Our relationship now is truly the epitome of a Long Distance Relationship.
