No blood ties yet emotional connect!!!
"I think I like him”, “this new professor is so boring”, “are you sure we have to study this chapter?", "lets bunk today”, “hell!! Will this subject ever come to an end?", "mom is mad at me for coming home late”, “results out and I cleared"...such common statements but such uncommon feeling. We may share best relationship with our parents but when it comes to these happy-sad times nobody can complement our friends.
It is so strange that at one instant we are not even aware about their existence, slowly they make an entry in our life, it starts with a mere hi/hello, transforms to exchanging phone numbers and sharing notes, evolves to bitching and gossiping, matures to discussing love-life-career and finally promotes to a level when they become an important ingredient of your life. So eccentric is it that all of a sudden you start pouring your heart to someone who just sometimes back was an unknown.
Discussing those peppy crushes, planning that first date, outlining a surprise party for them, conversing everything and anything under the sun over those long phone calls, enjoying those "ruthna-manana" moments, forwarding "friends forever" messages, having those petite fights with each other and hugging each other the very next instant, bashing up that moron who brought tears to their eyes, weeping on each other’s shoulders, victimizing them for all our pranks and than making funny faces. Oh the list is endless! How beautiful is the word friendship that it sees so no class, creed, religion? How pure is the fondness that the girl-guy factor evaporates? How selfless is the emotion that it accepts you the way you are?
Friends are those species who keep the fire in you burning even when you have lost all your confidence, those who hold your hand when the entire world has rejected you, those who believe in you even when you have ceased to believe in yourself, those who won’t let you shed a drop of tear even at the hour of crises, those who will go to any lengths to see your face crack into a smile, those who will sit beside you when you are bedridden, those who will curse you for scoring more than them yet they will find pride in your achievements, those who will be up till midnight to be the first one to wish you on your birthday, those who will pull your leg to no end, those who will demand a treat for something as silly as a new phone, those who will neither try to complete you nor care about your incompleteness, those who will love you for what you are and not hate you for something that you are not, they will not intervene in your personal space yet they will find a place in your heart and it is so natural that you may not even realize that you have found those companions for your entire life.
Even when circumstances take us away from them the relation remains unchanged. In this busy life we may not meet them as often as we plan but whenever we catch up with them we start from where we stopped last time. Words fall short to describe this sweet-sour relationship but heart can’t stop caring for them. Blessed is the living soul who has found a pal who giggles with his laughter and sobs with his tears!
