Great Relationships Require Much Flexibility.
Here is how stretching yourself and being flexible results in great love.
Everything in life is in a perpetual motion of change. Our body grows, changes, strengthens, weakens, may get injured, and ultimately, ages. Our ideas shift and alter, as do our moods, as well as the moods of people we are close to. Our romantic loves and friendships will evolve, flourish, and change. Some will even come to a close. The causes of our suffering or happiness will alter. The political situation changes. Fashion and weather is ever-evolving. The seasons' change, from sunshine and warmth to leaves blazed through with color, to a winter wonderland and back again.
Even change itself changes.
Thus, the only way to survive consists in the art of adapting to events that continually take us by surprise.
If you adapt, you (and other things) survive and even flourish. If instead, you do everything you can to stay fixed, you will struggle and even potentially lose big. Those who do not adapt end up like dinosaurs.
Flexibility is actually a form of practical wisdom. It signifies an intelligence that lives in the present, that knows how to read the slightest sign of change and then has the facility and pliability necessary for adapting, moving…
