“In the Heart’s Canvas: Redefining Relationships Beyond the Ticking Clock”

You don’t love people based on the number of years you have known them.

This is a shallow belief about how you can love someone better over the years if you don’t feel the connection.

A relationship grows over the years but the base of trust, mutual respect, and value for each other has been formed since day one. 

What unfolds onwards is the journey. You just can’t measure relationships based on years, does that mean we humans are just driven by numbers and not emotions or what the other person is doing for us? Now that’s a concern.

In matters of the heart, love is the artist, and time is but a canvas. Consider a couple who has been together for years and yet has that spark – not because of the years, but because every shared glance feels like the first. Their love story is engraved in the wrinkles made by laughter and shared burdens, not in the squares of the calendar.

Alternatively, a young couple seeks safety in each other’s arms amid negative inherited shadows. Their love, unrestricted by blood, became a haven from the storm. They discovered resilience in shared dreams and whispered reassurance that painted a brighter canvas than the shadows produced by destructive family relationships. There are numerous examples of love and care over timelines. So, who are we to decide the depth of any relationship based on how many years we have known each other?

On the other hand, some people’s love ages like neglected wine, with the years doing little to soothe the bitterness of a neglected bond. Time alone cannot restore what has been broken, where love once bloomed but now withers.

Are we reducing something as meaningful as love to numbers in our desire for connection? Love isn’t a transaction, nor is it simply the accumulation of years spent together. It’s the comfort of a shared blanket on a cold night, or the reassurance of a look amid difficult circumstances.

Let’s rethink the way we measure love. It’s not the ticking of the clock that makes a relationship rich; it’s the shared tears, laughter, and the quiet “I am here” in the face of life’s storms. Time may pass, but real love remains, a timeless melody in the symphony of human connection.

“In every birth across the universe and centuries, I will choose you over anyone not because of the love and care you showered on me but because of the selfless aura of yours which lit up everything around you. The sad truth is that a few Individuals failed to acknowledge the love and compared it with years. For you are the chosen one and we are mere puppets”.- RVA