Relationships R Us

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This is an example of a broad interpretation of the concept "relationship" that includes also relationship between man and machine.
What does relationship mean at all?
As natural human beings, it is obvious that in the first tackling of the issue we put in, the context of humans. Relationship could be seen as a bond between at least two or more persons, this is not a definition found in the dictionary. This is just a simple interpretation and here is the right place to raise a number of questions about, questions we will try to answer eventually.

What is the incentive of being in a relationship? What are the benefits?
Relationships form a group, a society. A group is a community of several members that are bound under a common goal or interest. Interest can be as an example, religion, country, political party, values, habits, gender, sports, job, blood relationship, and the group size may vary from several people to millions.
Being in a group gives order ,protection, brotherhood, security, power and self-confidence also for the least talented members inside, in general a group provides pathways and resources to be / do something that could not be done by one member itself by his own.

On the other side, what are the disadvantages of belonging to a group?
A group society depends on its character of course, could cause a person to lose his own identity and being like a number without a name, to lose his experty and uniqueness and obey the rules. It also makes a member to be watched under social pressure looking if he fulfills the rules of the "game".
A strong team can put a very desirable set of values that an individual inside could sacrifice himself for them, as in the case of a soldier who chooses to be warrior even if it means he could die in the battle, for his nation and his country, what is good for the team but clearly very bad for the individual.
Is it possible to find a way to belong to a group but continue to put thought and independent judgment and act uncompromisingly? This is one of the most important questions we can add to the list.

For groups that obey the rules of democracy or pluralism, it is possible at a high degree of certainty. However in monarchies or dictatorships groups it could be very difficult and free behavior of a member can even pose in risk his life.
Many think that it is normal we wish to be part of something bigger than us. In a bad case when the leaders are negative we can pay for it a painful price i.e. in the dark regimes during human history, not only from the twentieth century.

If someone acts as an individual or a group leader depends on many things, his character and skills, the circumstances and the specific subject, sometimes he could be the leader in a particular topic and to be led as a member in another. More about the group's character, democracy doesn't fit to every group to achieve its goals, as in the case of an army organization.
Is it true that if we would like to avoid the negative aspects involved in relationships, we can somehow avoid and choose not to be part of a group?
The answer is No !
This is something built-in in our nature as humans and all living creatures like us, social behavior and relationships are in our "genes" that our own world will not survive without these bonds type, by the way, we can find this behavior also in microbe's world like bacteria, fungi and molds who exchange hereditary information that can be seen as a kind of relationship. This, to respond environment changes.
Back to humans, a baby will smile to in tie with his mother, bonding her to love him more and create in her the will to protect him, this is a classic example.

Yet, yes, there are many cases where we choose to belong or not, to a particular group, this is not all about a matter with non selectable groups like the family group we were born into.

Talking about groups we can choose to join, a good example is about the company we work for. If our work place also makes the right choices to be able to point on a strategy, to set the vision, the right values, to give a brotherhood, and fix, clear goals, it will certainly lead to a better business success, a win win situation that would benefit everyone in the company. This is because a lot of a corporate strength lies on its human resources. Let us not forget that many people think that money is only one appreciated value, not the most important, they see it as a tool and not a goal, believe it or not.

In conclusion, relationships are life circles as it can be seen in the illustration shown, where each circle represents a relationship or group. It includes groups standing next to each other sometimes touching or overlapping or including. This is a very complicated pattern like a family, a neighborhood, a city, a common hobby, state, place of work ... a nation, a continent, and the most external circle could be all the humanity on the planet

All these words, and only the iceberg tip about the relations was discussed, human relationships, what about other relationships? As between man and nature, between man and machine, and so forth interaction systems, no, we will not discuss them all here since there isn't enough space on this paper.
We can only say that it is impossible to abstain from relationships and without being linked to other people.

Why?
The answer is as the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone"(Genesis 2:18), another way to say it is: "Relationships R Us".