Having a company is nice

Watched the movie ‘Up in the Air’ starring George Clooney. His character is a free man who doesn’t believe in marriage or any social commitment. He lives like that for years, dating women whenever he found interest in, and just travelling around the world which was part of his job. At one stage his sister’s to-wed fiancé develops a cold feed the day before their wedding and he was asked to convince the guy. He enters with a clean slate, and managed to find logic. He says something like, “Remember all the best moments in your life. Did you enjoy them alone?” The guys says, “no”. He hits the nail then, “That’s it. All the best moments in our life are enjoyed in someone’s company… It’s nice to have company…” The scared groom had a change of mind and everything turns out well…

That is so true. All things we enjoy in our life have some other people involved in it. Our spouse is that ‘permanent’ company. We are social beings, and having a permanent company and friend gives us emotional strength. On the other side of the coin, we can tend to depend excessively on others for those pleasures of our life. And theoretically there may be things for which we need our ‘space’, but I think there are very few things, if any, which can’t be enjoyed with our companion with us. Purpose of our life is also to learn by having relationships.

- Rahul