Whoever said that relationships are 50/50 need to be hit on the thigh with a sugar cane. They don't have to be hit hard, just hard enough to stain the memory and leave a welt.
If I'm giving 50% of the time what am I doing the other 50%? Taking? If I am giving for 50 and taking for the other 50, positive 50 plus negative 50 is still zero. If the other person is doing the same, zero plus zero is still, say it with me now, ZERO!
What if the other person takes more than they give? Doesn't that leave me with less than I started with?
I was sitting outside of Starbucks one beautiful day, sipping on green tea lemonade when a random man asked, "Whats one plus one?" "Excuse me," I said.
"Most people think one plus one is two, but in nature its actually three."
Well, I thought this man was crazy, but after I've thought about it, I realize that he may have a point.
Applied to relationships (from friendships to marriage), one plus one is three. Thats who I am alone, who you are alone, and who we are together.
Its not 50/50; its 100/100 because what you give should not be contingent on what you are receiving. If that were the case, we'd all come up short.
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