Striving Towards Excellence

-Karthik Gurumurthy

No relationship is perfect, no matter what it looks like from the outside. The couples who make it decades together aren’t the lucky ones who never fight—they’re the ones who learned how to fight and still choose each other.

Real love isn’t about finding someone who never hurts you. It’s about finding someone worth forgiving, over and over. It’s about staying when leaving would be easier, rebuilding when things fall apart, and choosing the same person even after you’ve seen their worst.

The strongest marriages aren’t built on good times—they’re built on getting through the bad times together. Every argument survived, every mistake forgiven, every moment of “I don’t know if we’ll make it” followed by “but let’s try”—that’s what creates unshakeable love.

What keeps people together isn’t that they’re perfect for each other. It’s that they decided to keep picking each other, flaws and all. They learned that love isn’t just a feeling you fall into—it’s work you choose to do, every single day.

The couples celebrating their golden anniversaries aren’t celebrating an easy journey. They’re celebrating the fact that when their love was tested, they fought for it instead of walking away. That’s the difference between love that lasts and love that doesn’t: one is willing to do the work, even when it’s hard.