Human Relationships and Business cycles
Of late, I have realised that human relationships also go through the same phases of business cycle - Upturn, Expansion, Peaking Out, Recession. The only significant difference being business cycles are recurrent where as human relationships fade away after one cycle. In most cases, the cycle period is so small that it gives a false hope to the individual to keep trying and enter into new relationships. It is when the cycle period is significantly large and you get sufficient exposure of each phase, you get enlightened about its true nature.
Like in economics, the most difficult and uncertain phases are the upturn and the recession. During upturn, you are too skeptical, apprehensive and uncertain about the what is going to happen next and hence you make every move with immense thinking and calculation. The focus here being to be impressive, make the most of the opportunities and to get into each other’s comfort zone. Obviously, it goes without saying that the experiences from previous relationships and opinion of rest of the world takes a backseat. You start convincing yourself that you should look at “half empty” glass as “half filled”. In recession, it is the same state in which we saw the world during 2008. Every damn thing is blown away and you are there picking up the bits & pieces and trying to make some sense out of everything and yet, every single time, you end up being nonsense. The realisation sinks in: ” A half empty is glass is half empty and not half filled”.
Now, coming to the other two phases - expansion and peaking out. These make you develop the belief that “life is beautiful” and “everything is permanent”. The rate of growth, output and promising results too good to consider any other thing.
The longer you endure each phase, the better enlightenment you get out of it.
Disclaimer: This piece of writing has come out of the observations made in my surrounding environment and absolutely has no personal flavour attached to it.
