Untagged relationships

Sneha Mutha
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Back in 2003.

I and my friend were back benchers from 5th standard. Our friendship was so close that we never used to allow anyone to sit beside us if one of us is absent. One day, one of the neighbor benchers said, ‘you truly are best friends’ and coincidentally we both denied the tag called ‘Best Friend’. ‘If we call our self ‘best friends’ it is highly likely that we will fight on smaller things.’

I recalled this incidence while Pooja was complaining to her husband.

Gears & levers inside my head started moving. When we ‘tag’ our relationships in life, knowingly or unknowingly we also attach some expectations and demands. For example, a person with a ‘husband’ tag has to fulfill my all expectations. A person with a tag of ‘wife’ has to do certain things for me. Not necessarily all are bad or burden on the head but expectations are there.

What if we untag these relationships and consider each other human first?

Sneha Mutha

Co-founder & Creative head @PugMarker | Visualizer | Color lover | Happiness at core! | I ❤ my life

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