Has it ever occurred to you how many broken vessels and damaged goods there are on today's market?

The world we live in today and especially the relationship/social arena can be easily likened to a market. A market place where people sell and buy others, sell themselves, buy themselves, market each other, and engage in all of the activities that any modern entrepreneur would to create, market and sell any object in the complex globalised market place today. Just took a look at the myriad of advertisements that flood our consciousness at every second. At least every other one is geared to help in the process of buying and sell ourselves and each other in the global 'capitalist' marketplace.

Like any young, red-blooded male, I have had my fair share of dating, metting new people, casual encounters and the like but the interesting element about this 'relationship marketplace' came when I decided that I would give ago at looking for a stable, committed, loving relationship, lol.

In all previous attempts, I had used my toolkit of skills and my strong net and managed to throw it out and reap a catch, but like fish, the effects on the body were only temporary :-).

It amazed me to find however, then when posting an ad on any modern connection site, and expressing one's desire to find someone who was ready to handle a relationship and all it brings - while giving an adequate description of what one would like and expect from the optimal partner - that there were a plethora of responses from a wide variety of individuals.

But here is the catch. Their responses to one's ad are always 'Pandoric' - full of hope, promise and desire and then they invariable tend to take an interesting twist to say the least. They go from being enthralled with one's ad and the potential union that can occur, to a variety of reposnes, including that they are not ready for a relationship due to recently ending one, not responding at all and much more.

It occurred to me today that over the past 9 month, the time for gestation of an infant, amongst many of the people I have met, many of them can be classed as 'damaged goods' or 'broken vessels' on the market place. The merchants of these damaged good and broken vessels are in need of help and are avidly seraching for craftsmen to help them repair and heal their product but the fear they store from previous encounters with fraudulent repairmen make them timid and quasi-schizophrenic.

It is touching to see how many 'Damaged Goods' there are on the market place and how few serious craftsmen.It is even sadder that the damaged goods can go through several cycles of damage until they themselves begin to damage others - without ever recognizing or encountering a true craftsman.

Another interesting element is that once one passes 23, and the older one gets, the frequency of damaged goods and broken vessels being displayed on the shelves of the relationshop marketplace tend to be higher. Most people have gone through one or more transfers from their place of manufacture and been slightly to severely damaged. So what is the new buyer in this market to do?

We are all craftsmen in our own right and it is only through making an attempt to heal another can one truly be healed.

Would love to know what others think on the subject

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