Fostering Relationships....how?

We have seen lot of cracks or atleast the beginning of cracks,in relationships,in this forum,as also a silver lining in the horizon,when people making the effort to reach out to total strangers. This made me think and come up with this idea to start this thread. I am astonished to see, how, many of our friends here contribute to any topic, and I welcome everyone to better suggestions.After all we are a family too!

Any relationship is very beautiful, whether it is H&W, Mother& daughter/son,father&daughter/son,between siblings,in-laws,friends etc.,etc., it is for everyone to cherish and contribute to each other's growth, in lots of ways.Is the human being shrinking as a personality?According to Swami Vivekananda...Expansion is life, growth and Shrinking is death!

As human beings, we have many facets as far as relationship is concerned.we are related differently to many, at a given point of time.Do we balance that, or are we able to?It is a challange to many, an art to some and a non-entity to a few.Our indian culture nurtured this balancing in many forms, like joint family system,celeberting festivals and events, where relatives and friends get together, and celeberate relationships too.Fragmentation of families, due to evolution,or other unavoidable causes, has defenitely contributed to the deterioration, though we still celeberate festivals etc.Okay let me not go into that further.

What can we do?How can we be models to our next generation?Starting with the family,since it is the basis of a society and thereon,strengthening the bond between the children and guiding them at the next level, with attitude towards the society.One of the things we ourselves can do, taking the leap towards that direction,- I mean 'fostering relationships'- is,

to look, for at least a few positive qualities in everybody.

Start listing them seperately under each person's name and

start everyday reading them, just to remember for the day.

Adding whatever crops up our the minds in everyone's list.

we can add our names too.

Friends, the list is sure to grow!A little paradigm shift is sure to come.!

I wish to share something I read,many years back, which I still cherish:

"There is so much bad in the best of us and
There is so much good in the worst of us
It ill becomes the first of us
To cast a stone on the rest of us."

hi kalluputti,

thanks for sharing the thoughts.

concentrating more on the good qualities of others and forgetting the bad will bring peace of mind. we are more doing the reverse way

it needs some daily practice..

manju