Relationships----as easy it is to start one, equally difficult is to let go. We meet so many people on the go, some become friends and acquaintances, with not much of our emotions being tampered, while some become more than that, they touch our lives. I used to believe that only people who are same in every respect, their thinking, ideologies, can become close.

I was never a believer of the quaint thought that ‘opposites attract’. How can two people, two different individuals, who would have been brought up in different environments, owing to which they would have ingrained different set of values, different personalities and outlooks towards life, attract? Is it remotely possible that so many differences be just ignored?

 But then there are examples that challenge my thinking. There are instances when a very much reserved, mature individual would meet a very vivacious personality who in the general term would be called an extrovert. The inception of such relationships is actually beautiful. It goes well till the devil called ‘expectations’ creep in. Each one of us has his/her dreams, demands and somewhere deep inside us we all want these expectations to be met. The individuality of the person we would have liked in the beginning steadily fades away in the oblivion paving a new way for differences to reign over our intricate yet so fragile relationship. The differences that would have attracted us in the beginning would become the enemy. We would like to see the other person in just the light we want, completely ignore the fact that the person is another individual and not our own clone.

Then unfortunately in many cases these minute issues outweigh all the love one would have for the other person and break those intricately woven threads of relationship. Relationships are easy to call off, but then what about all the emotions and attachments, the dreams that would have built with it. Is it so easy to just ‘let go’ the other person who would have meant ‘life’ to you? Is it normal to break the so called ‘unusual relationship’ and just get accustomed to the changes of life? Won’t we end up searching all this in the other person we would meet eventually in the journey of life?