Friday, June 6, 2014

Oh Please, Treat Me Well



Let me translate it for you. This statement says:

Find someone:
- who always greets you "Good Morning"
- who calls you back when you hang up because you are angry
- who always let you know his/her whereabouts every single day
- who carefully listen to your problems
- who says Good Night though he/she is tired after working all day
- who accepts you for you really are
- who guides you to the right path
- who won't force any situation when it's not possible
- who always says "I Love You"
- and who always tries everything to make your relationship works

Hmm... who doesn't want a partner with those qualifications? No one.
And "Where can I find someone like that?"

We are deserved to be treated well, or best, by our loved ones. So we make criteria that suits us in finding partners. We want someone who can and is willing to treat us well, to treat us like prince or princess. Is it wrong? Of course not. Again we are deserved those things.

BUT! Yes, there's a big but here. We tend to forget that our partners also have the same privilege. They have the right to be treated the same as we are. They also wish the same criteria. Vice-versa.

How can we expect our loved ones to be what we want them to be should we are not as they expect?

Instead of saying "Find someone", why don't we state "Be someone". You can always start a relationship with expectation, the truth is we have to keep hoping along the journey. But we also have to start it with willingness to treat our loved ones the same.

Let's say that we have fulfill those criteria we mention above. We greet them Good Morning, Good Night, we listen to their problems, we guide them, we say "I love you" thousand times, yet our partners do not do them to us. What do we do then? This is my favorite part, as you can read on my previous posts, and it's there on the list of criteria above. We can always ask ourselves "Do we accept him/her as he/she really is?"

So, my answer to my question about where we can find someone who is willing to treat us like princes or princesses is I don't know. Here is what I know, and I know for sure that you will find yourself keep looking that special someone for the rest of your life as long as you are not willing to do the same to him/her. And if you, by all chance, finally find him/her with those dreamy criteria, it won't last long should your demand level  is higher than your acceptance & willingness level.

1 comment:

  1. I love reading this post. I agree that instead of' finding someone', you should 'be someone' in order to get that ideal partner.

    Sometimes people forget that you are not the only one that trying to find a partner. There are also a lot of people who tend to find his partner according to their ideal type partner. The simple problem is you want to get the ideal partner but sometimes you forget how to be the one that could be seen clearly enough as an ideal type partner.

    Btw, typing this parable somehow make me feel a little confused, lol.

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