Real togetherness is the relationship between the tree and the earth. One draws its sustenance from the other. Both draw life from each other. Necessarily. Ineluctably. That ineluctability is the real togetherness. But the extraction is based on a deep understanding. The tree needs the earth for driving its hungry roots down as much as the earth needs the tree for materialising its fecundity. When the infant draws life from its mother’s breasts, the mother is enriched too. That mutual enrichment is real togetherness. Real togetherness is when man and woman probe into the eyes of each other and see oneself reflected in the eyes of the other. The other becomes a lake into which one plunges to emerge in a while with enhanced zest for life. The breeze of the heavens wafts through the necessary interstices of that zest. Real togetherness is the essence of the apple that Eve and Adam bit into before being ejected summarily from God’s patronisation. It is grap
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