We live in a networked world. All that binds us are clusters of people defining various relationships to us, the key here being the word relation which defines the relationship. We are connected by a sea of people, may be gazillion ones. Studies show that every sixth person in the world is connected.

The moment we are born into this world crying, we join this gazillion front and start defining these relations. We are shown to different people, different people see us; yet we still search to define that relationship. People we love, people we care about, people we live with, people we hate, people whose company we cherish, people whose company we wish would be everlasting, people who we cry for, people who we laugh at, people who we comfort us with, people we go to in the time of crash, people who form our circle of influence, people who form our supportive system; yet just one term distinguishes or cuddles us – relationships.

I don’t just mean a man-woman relationship here whenever I quote the word; rather I mean the sea of networks which can’t be lived without. I mean our parents, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies, our cousins, our aunts, our uncles, our grandparents, our affinities to name some. Yet we still keep searching for the key to build them and live with them.

What is that that defines this script? Is it the power of love or is it the power of want? Is it the power of network dependency? Or is it the power of comfort-zone as most term it as? The answer is still a mile away from quest.

Why do we live? To make a difference or to make money or to make this place a better place to live in? What is important? The power of brands or the power of why-the-brand-is-powerful? The thirst is still unquenched.

Meanings are being sought, options are being given, answers are being adopted, words are being customized, but nevertheless the power of the truth never fades. What brings darkness? The answer is simple. What brings peace or joy? Is the answer still simple?

Does where you do it is important or what you do there is more important? Or does the ability to prove why you did there regardless of what you did or where you did it is important? The answer is a jigsaw.

Yet for these questions we get to those people listed in the second paragraph for answers. The questions are asked by them and the answers are given by them – yet we get convinced. Still we feel the convergence is necessary. If homogeneous is the name of the game, then where would differentiation fit in? But if heterogeneity is the name, then where does expectation fit in. But if “expectations” is the name of the game, then where does real “relationships” fit in?

Unanswered questions are plenty, but it’s the mind which chooses which ones are to be answered and which ones to be left with a question mark?

Labels: Expectations, Networks, People, Relationships