Relationship

Our attitude towards relationship is mostly determined by reciprocation and response we get from the opposite side.We continue to be friendly and thoughtful if we find the people respond to us in more or less equal manner.On the other hand, if we find people very mean and spiteful, we tend to reflect those qualities in our relationship with them. In my opinion, the difference between a great man and a normal man is that the former doesn't allow the external factors to influence their behavior with others whereas the latter does. Most people consider relationship as a mirror.Like the mirror which shows back the same image, they only give what they receive. This is a common tendency among people.They are kind to people who are kind to them and hostile towards those who are hostile to them.I wonder whether those people have a standard idea about relationship. However, it is easy for people to decide their behaviour or response towards others. They have to just watch others behaviour and modify their responses.It gives immediate gratification to them.

Great people don't succumb to any provocations and continue to emit their inner essence. They are gentle and altruistic in their relationship with others. This noble quality is a difficult feat to achieve.Mostly this quality is associated with saints and sages.Although it is practically impossible to follow this in day to day life, it is however one of the finest human values which has sustained human life on the earth.If we try to cultivate in us a judicious mixture of these two extremes i.e neither a mirror nor a saint like approach towards our relationship with others,the world will be definitely a better place to live in.