of the sea, the rock and the beach

Relationships are like a sea coast. If both partners are like waves.... giving and taking love from each other... crashing into the other at any given opportunity... being alike and being one... then they coexist like a sea... happy in the tumultuousness of their relation... this is usually the beginning of a relationship... the seas have to become calm... eventually... eventually, you will have nothing to give and nothing to take...

Then there are relationships where one partner is the sea and the other is like the rock on the sea coast.... the sea keeps hitting the rock with love... sometimes with rage... but the rock doesn't react.. it stays the way it is... Happy in its solitude... if the sea recedes some day, then probably it’ll find a wave to crash into... perhaps the rock will start missing it as it get baked in the unsympathetic sun... probably it will not... But... had the sea continued crashing into the rocks, some day it’d found a way in.... some day, the rocks would have given in.... some day, some inlet would have been created and the sea could have broken into new grounds... given rise to new life... It is a risk that the sea has got to take...

The third kind is the beach.... the wave comes in with all its love.... it has already been stripped off all its rage, all its frustrations and all its inadequacies... as it comes to the beach, it is lovingly received by the sand.... The beach gives the sea everything that it can... its pebbles, its conches, its castles and footprints.... the weary sea quietly comes and takes away its treasures.... this is what relations are meant to be....

If you are the wave... and if you have found a wave... make the most of now... but remember that someday the tumultuousness has to end... don’t be too surprised if both of you end up finding a beach of your own...

If you are the wave... and if you have found a rock... keep hitting till you can... if you get that elusive inlet, it is your destiny... if not, it is still your destiny... but always remember... the sea is never blamed for receding from the rocks...

If you are the rock... wipe that smirk off your face... some day you’ll have to give in... that is how nature works... don’t be so sure of yourself...

Finally... if you are the beach... you are the best that you can be... keep giving... keep receiving... God bless you...