The Yin to my Yan

How would it be if two people could meet, like each other intuitively, recognize each other’s talents, admire the other for their respective endowments and... that’s it?

How would it be if there was no friendship, no enmity, no love, no hate, no crushes, no jealousy, no butterflies-in-the-stomach, no desire to land a punch on the face, no responsibility between those two but just a strong, mutual respect?

Mind boggling? Dry? Unimaginable? Or maybe you don’t want to imagine it?

For me, it’s my deepest yearning. Meeting someone and developing a true, reciprocated veneration for each other. No complicated feelings, no affections beyond admiration and a grudging approval as my equal. More complementary the talents, better the understanding too. Otherwise competition might play spoilsport.

Working together, helping out mutually, the yin to my yan - but just professionally, with exactly the right amount of care involved. Ah! What wonders we could do! What marvels we can create! What could we not achieve!

This desire seems ambitious? Wait. It’s not over yet. 

Now imagine a team. A team full of people with a pool of talents. Pieces of jigsaw fitting together to form a perfect picture. No scratches, no replacements, no bitterness, no sour feeling and no discomfort. A dream team. 

I see promising people all through my day. The ones who can make it to my dream team. But are they really the ones? That’s the puzzling part.

And of course, some relationship always crops up, the desire to punch on the face being the most common. Spoiling it all.