Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Perfect relationships

Script writers are gems, coming up with some of the most interesting and arresting anecdotes each week, especially sitcom writers. Their brilliant phrases encapsulate universal truths with each capsule and brought to life each time on our TV screens.

This morning’s airing of “Scrubs” provided yet another one of those philosophical moments that’s just dying to be mentioned.

To sum it up, the phrase about the perfect relationship is just absolutely brilliant: “The perfect relationship is when you still want to be together when it sucks…”

Yes, it reinforces the truth that character is only measurable at the lowest ebb of one’s life, as is the strength of a relationship or a friendship. It’s always easy to love someone or to be “in character” when one’s sitting on top of the world. But if you asked me, I believe that one’s life is molded of the tough stuff, not the easy ones.

And the partner or friends that stick with you when you’re at your ugliest and unsightly self are those that truly appreciate you for who you are and not what you have or what they hope to get from you. These are rare and when you do find them, you should make every endeavour to treasure them, for it is a growingly crude and hostile world we live in where almost every good element such as honour, integrity and love is readily thrown out the window for a small measure of even three silver pieces, never mind the thirty that was paid to Judas for the price of his lord’s head.

And reality for being what it is, if you have two or three of such people in your life that actually values you for who you are, you would have discovered the pearl in the world’s oyster. Believe me, these angels are truly hard to come by these days.

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