Relationships

Why You Should Have a Strategy to Find a Companion

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

- Mark Twain

In my last blog on companionship, I focussed on the difference between friendship and companionship. Here I highlighted that the essence of companionship is sharing.

Now I want to dive into how we choose the companion or companions in our lives. As highlighted before, we spend a lot of our time associating companionship with romantic relationships. However, we can have companions outside of romantic relationships, and it is up to us to define that.

Despite not always wanting to share, as we age, we experience the value of sharing. We can share experiences, a meal, or a smile with someone every day. So, Sharing becomes a core part of what we do and is closely linked to our overall happiness.

As we become more aware of our surroundings with age, we realise that life by ourselves is hard. And with no one to share our sad and joyous times, life becomes somewhat pointless. And companions give us the ability to share these things for a lifetime.

However, many of us do not have a strategy to find a companion. We tend to let these things happen naturally as we go through our different stages in life. But I…