“Long distance was, and is, a terrible idea… a really terrible idea” – Ted Mosby.

I don’t understand relationships though I’m fifty percent of my relationship since last eight and half years. I get it, I mean; I get the point that when you like being with someone then you’ve to be with that person rather than to be elsewhere.

As a part of a country, where opportunities to work and grow are concentrated in very few areas and from where habitable zones are miles away, how are you supposed to make the work-life balance?

Thanks to Globalization and liberalization that footloose industries came and provided opportunities for people to be around those they love but still the problems of long-distance relationship persist.

But what if destiny keeps throwing you on a completely different path?

See, Growth is not the issue but growing apart is. Being a millennial I have seen many parents, including mine, living apart to provide for the family and for our education but I have also witnessed many of them falling apart or just simply being together for the sake of their children and, all time abused, society.

And also with the knock of liberalization, we have seen steep growth in the divorce rate. I don’t blame divorce, I mean, it’s better to live alone than to live together miserably.

But when it all boils down to living alone then why do people seek companionship?

I have this insane theory that in past one or two decades there has been an unending debate on individuality. Individuality is being advertised and sold and celebrated. There’s nothing wrong in seeking individuality but in this search, we have also lost the sense of inter-dependability and the feeling of belongingness because, hello, no one is talking about it except a generation which has an un-updated repository of knowledge and has irrational fears.

Alcohol and weed have been made a cool thing to have. Parties begin when the bottom of the glass is reached. And the spaces that people wanted earlier got converted into the zones in which the significant other for the time being cannot enter.

What can you do when you’re in the middle of relationship turmoil?

Well, with all the negativity that is hovering in and around our lives all we could do is to let the significant other be what he/she may want to be. Because what you’re scared of will come in front of you in one way or the other. All you could do is to be supportive, caring and forgiving. And if it is meant to be then the destiny will find a way to keep you together.

More on this later.