What kind of relationship is most vital to long-term happiness: family, friendship, or romantic? TribeSteemup BiWeekly Question
"Happiness is not a station you reach, but a way of traveling."
Happy as penguins
We human beings are sociable by nature. However, our interrelationships are as beautifully complicated as they are unavoidable. We do not prosper alone, we need peers, like most living things on the planet. To be born, grow and reproduce, we depend on others. Those "others" with whom we congregate and form bonds of family, friendship or romance; more or less lasting vital relationships to seek happiness.
But which of them assures us of long-term happiness? I would say all and none. Supreme Happiness is a state rather than a goal. I am more or less happy with others to the extent that I understand that happiness is not provided to me by another, but the Love that I have inside.
From this knowledge, everything becomes clearer and conscious. If I am an expression of universal Love, so are others. Then, that acceptance brings us closer to a reality of peace, acceptance and forgiveness that works miracles in our environment, promoting harmony, joy and strength to face the bad times, which will surely ensue at any moment of life, regardless of company.
Then, family, friends and couple are beings that accompany our existential journey and make it bearable, as long as unity, conscience and the light of love prevail. Conflicts and discords are part of the process of human growth, as well as joys. We learn in different ways and evolve to the extent that we capture what each good or bad event is about, except that the "good" or "bad" label is a personal perception.
Each of us has the power to create the existence that you want to live and surround yourself with the people you need for your evolution, if you don't do it consciously, the Universe will do it. Hence, there are people who prefer a lonely life and others who build and maintain relationships with close ties, whether family, friendly or romantic. Everything will depend on the need for inner growth.
Each relationship fulfills a purpose and responds to a felt need to be and be in the moment and place chosen by our inner divinity to spread its wings and fly flush with what it sows, cultivates, values and develops, as part of the choice and mission in life.
Given this reality, it is appropriate to admit that we are a continuum, an interval defines our route and life time. However, since under the sun everything has its time and God's time is perfect, we live stages with more or less established lapses: "There are times to sow and times to reap." Therefore, from the same Genesis, in the Bible the conception that the family nucleus must be extended was advanced, for which the man and the woman will leave their original homes to form their own home. This means that the most vital relationship in the long term is that of a couple, since the procreated children are children of life and will spread their wings to find a partner and form their own nest.
We are passengers birds, our flight has stops and companions. The family is our soil and our nest, friends are seasonal birds, they rarely accompany you for a lifetime. But, the couple is our north, the goal to reach to land our dreams and hopes in building a tomorrow. A romantic relationship has a healing component: hope, another connector: commitment and another love: illusion and passion. When we fall in love, we believe in the future, we plan, project, commit and love; With the faith that it will be for a lifetime. Whether it is given or not as planned, that it is another sack's flour.
Loving in a romantic way brings us the intention and extension of the penguins, the most faithful couple of the species. Penguins mate with only one partner throughout their life. Their "song of the heart" is a form of singing that both memorize to recognize themselves in a crowd and meet again.
For us, living together, building our own nest and creating a family, is a challenge to complete our cycle and be happy for a lifetime.
19/10/2019
This is my answer to the biweekly question of @tribesteemup
The images are from Pixabay CC0 Creative Commons:
Magellan penguin by EzPzPics
Love by bngdesigns
Family by GDJ
Couple by PublicDomainPNG
Separators:
Cat
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