In a relationship built on sensibility, Sense has no role. In a relationship of Sense, sensibility has no role.

With every relationship, the cynicism increases. Nobody can be truly in love after the age of 18.

What about those of us who refuse to let sensibility in? Companionship – such a palatable term. Acceptable to the Great Indian Middle Class.

Here’s a question – what is companionship?

Companionship. Noun. A feeling of fellowship or friendship.

Ergo, to be companionable there’d first have to be friendliness.

Friendliness – of, relating to or befitting a friend. To be companions, we need to be friends. To be friends we need – what?

Friend – a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. To be companions, we need to be friends. To be a friend, there has to be affection or personal regard.

Affection - a “disposition or rare state of mind or body” that is often associated with a feeling or type of love.

So the “L” word does indeed, appear. In companionship. That very epitome of correctness.

Affection, personal regard, love – do these not arise from a mutual understanding? If yes – what is that understanding of? One cannot understand an abstract. There has to be a Subject that is understood – be it a common culture, a specific choice of tea or an abhorrence for Punk Rock. Understanding is a valid choice, extended to a finite entity. Without a concrete entity to extend that understanding to, the whole edifice is nothing but a pack of cards, precariously perched on a shifting sands.

Sense – the Senses as manifest in sensuality for the most part – but beyond that as well – are they not the tools with which we understand? Imagine the Blind Men with the Elephant. How did they understand? Only thought Sense. So what if that understanding was incomplete – it was complete to their limited world. None of us are truly Sighted. Aren’t we all stumbling around in the dark? If yes – then why do we fear our Sense? Why wait, like the lone man in the corner, huddled in his cloak of Sensibility, unaware of the Elephant in the room, because the fear of not perceiving the Entity in its Entirety is too overwhelming? Such a waste of Sense. And Time.

Take your pick.