Crossroads

Last few months, most of friends & aquaintances have had a change in their relationship status. People getting in and out of marriages has become so common. For every 2-3 marriages/engagements i hear of, i get to hear of a couple headed for splitsville. i wonder is it some underlying balance nature is trying to maintain.

Discussed it with M, his reaction 'Fat leti hai yeh sochke kabhi kabhi' was funny yet true! 'Yeh' referrred to the divorces happening around all of us. Another friend M commented, 'BC...saala samajh nahi aata, ho kya jata hai!!'

Seems all of us infected with the 'More-is-Less' virus, and relationships are dying as a result of the infection.None of us are content with what we have - jobs, salaries, clothes, cars. This discontentment is spilling onto the non-material belongings - our relationships with our partners. Rigidity with what we want, i feel, is the rampant cause for relationships being at crossroads. Compromises/sacrifice no longer exists in our dictionaries.

Sansui's tagline 'Better than the best' also seems to have come up from the fact, that nothing meets our level of expectation, and how we feel there is always something better to look out for. The bar of the expectation is rising only upwards, with little tolerance and leeway for the other.

Couples seem happy and seems they will always be together. Then, out of the blue, one of the pair plays the divorce card, leaving all those involved wondering what knocked them off the fence. I too, have been knocked off trying to figure out what fails in the relationship???