People often ask me, “What on earth do you mean when you say, ‘Your life is the sum of your relationships.’?”
Let me explain, because relationships can be either as simple or as complicated as you make them.
I define a relationship as the way in which two or more people, places, things, or ideas connect with each other or the state of their being connected.
There are many types of connections – attitudinal, causal, dependent, emotional, geographic, legal, logical, magnetic, mathematical, medical, physical, rational, romantic, sensual, sexual, spatial, spiritual, temporal.
A relationship reveals itself through how two or more people, places, things, or ideas associate, regard, or behave toward each other; how they either attract or repulse each other.
In Hebrew, God’s ancestral root of the world’s languages, the three-letter root of the concept of two people, places, things, or ideas attracting or drawing near to each other is a kof, which has the sound of a hard K; followed by a resh, which has the sound of an R; followed by a vav, which has the sound of V. Depending on the construct in which the word is being used, the vowels may differ slightly, but the sound of the infinitive absolute form of the word is kuh-rave. Crave.
That is why we crave a positive relationship. Because God intended it in His intelligent design and creation of our world. Because of God’s law of attraction.
We crave that with which we associate, for which we have a high regard, with which we want to behave (or misbehave, in the right circumstances, but that is an entirely different conversation) positively.
[reminder]Think about the objects of your positive relationships. Do you crave them? If not, why not?[/reminder]
Let me know your thoughts about this.
In the meantime, you GOTTABGATT!, so go out there to day and be Great! All the time!