Human
beings are social in nature. They cannot live alone. Family is a small unit of society.
A person as he/she moves along the way of his life growing in age, has to depend
on various persons of the family in particular and of the society in general.
For such dependence, one has to exchange one's ideas and maintain contacts with
others.
It
is this action which in a single word can be termed as social relationship. The
relationship is of paramount importance in the life of human being. At the very
beginning of life, it is found that survival of a child is impossible unless it
gets assistance from the other members of the family. It has to depend on
others in order to fulfil its various needs. The child first establishes its
relationship with its mother, then gradually with father, brothers and sisters
and other members of the family. During the later stages it has to establish
social relationship gradually in the larger society outside the family. It is
observed that not a single human being can live without such social
relationship. Even the fundamental needs of the child cannot be fulfilled without
the help of others. Thereafter consultation and helping one another are necessary
in order to express one's own sorrows and pleasures. A human being is needed to
cooperate with others in order to minimize his/her sorrows and sufferings.
Without
the cooperation of others, it too becomes impossible for a person to become self-dependent.
So, in fine, it can be said that everyone has to cooperate with others in every
stage of life facing all the disadvantages of life in order to make life meaningful.
Otherwise life will become meaningless. Such an essential social relationship
flows towards various directions. Sometimes due to this relationship, a person
is found to depend completely on others. An infant, a child depends solely upon
the elders of the family. Sometimes, this relationship exists in the form of exchanges
or transactions, such as, when the children grow up, they cooperate with each
other.
Sometimes,
the relationship is based on respect and love. It can be said that relationship
with teachers, too, involves transaction or give and take and exchange of ideas
and expression of respect. Likewise, there is the relationship with friends of contemporary
age and with neighbours.
However,
in order to make one's life meaningful, one has to live in close contact with various
persons of the society. In this way the social relationship builds. But a
person has to acquire certain virtue or to follow some general principles in
order to establish such social relationship and maintain healthy contacts.
These are as following.
The principles of good relationship
1. The principles of transactions: A person has to follow the principle of transaction in
order to establish relationship. It is in this way that transactions, exchange
of ideas and maintaining mutual contact is possible.
2. Cooperation: One
has to have a sense of cooperation within oneself. If one has a feeling of
helping only oneself, it makes one self- centered rather than social if such a
feeling crosses certain limits. Most of the time, it creates jealousy and
unhealthy competition among the competitors, thus removes the very possibility
of good relationship.
3. Sympathy:
Sympathy is yet another principal virtue one should posses in establishing
social relationship. It is difficult to become social if sympathy cannot be shown
to others during their sorrows and troubles while going along in the society.
4. Unselfishness: Another
important aspect in establishing social relationship is getting rid of
selfishness. It becomes difficult for a person to establish relations with
others if he/she keeps himself/ her busy in his/her own interests. Relation
becomes normal through reaching an understanding when any complex situation
arises.
5. Human Virtues: Besides,
it becomes easy to establish good relations with various personalities of the
family if the human virtues such as respect, affection, submissiveness,
etiquette, etc. are exercised in time. It is necessary to mention here that
every social relation in respect of place, time and person is equally important
if one has to live in any society. The detailed discussion is made in this
chapter on aspects related to establish relations of teenagers with teachers,
friends of contemporary age and neighbors.
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