Where The Circle Ends

Journey

Relationships are very interesting.

Back when I was a freshman in high school, I had very narrow (and naive) opinions of relationships. I had found them rather futile and completely useless.

However, upon being in a serious relationship a few months after, and going through a serious break-up, it certainly made an impact on both my views, and who I was and am as a person.

I learned that relationships can help a person grow. Not only can they better help you understand the other person, they can better help you understand yourself as a person.

Back then, it completely changed my views toward relationships 180 degrees. I realized that without relationships, you would never truly discover yourself as a person. And now about 3 years later, I’ve sort of come to the realization that although you are an individual, you are also something else. For that one other person in the world, you are their missing piece of the puzzle.

Often times, we don’t realize a part of our personality or ourselves, until we meet someone that brings it out. For example, when we are with our friends, those are the instances in our lives when we are truly ourselves. No need to worry about what someone thinks, but simply, just being ourselves.

And so, revisiting the notion of relationships, I think we all will meet someone, that we instantly think: “I would marry them this instant if I could.”

Six months later, we reaize there had been something we didn’t take into our calculation, and turns out, they weren’t “the one.”

But how can we know? How can we know, that someone, who at the current point in time we truly trust, will end up being “the one?”

At this point in my life, I think I’ve matured to the point where I can accept “if you are truly meant to be with someone, let them go. If they come back, then you were meant to be together.

And even though this seems to be a rambling of fate, it’s interesting to note that if you compare the opinions of teenagers to those of the eldery on fate vs. free will, the younger you are, the more likely you are to believe that you have a control in your life.

And with that, all I can conlude with is: let’s see if this holds to be true for me.