Just friends!!!
---hanging by a thread between love and friendship..
Adapting to the western culture at the speed of light, the Indian roots don't seem to leave us when it comes to the girl-guy thing. "Just friends" and "Just friends" may mean one and the same till you have a closer look and start reading between the lines. While the former indeed implies to being best of friends, the latter takes friendship to a new level all together. There stands a very thin line between being best friends and being lovers but the fact is most fail to notice the existence of that line.
"Either a gal and a guy can never be best friends or they are always more than friends" this is a typical mentality which people tend to follow but I beg to differ! In my opinion, not all relationships seal their fate with love. Having a best friend from opposite gender doesn't denote that your heart is pumping fast and that your mind is lost in love-land as it appears to the world around you. Sometimes the equation that you share with the opposite species is far more comfortable than the bond shared with your own gender clan friends.
It is true that he/she is on your speed dial, that you may have flirted often, said hate you and love you in one conversation itself, did silly things to make him/her happy, burned into ashes when someone else tried to be better friend with him/her than you, teased each other with random girls and guys, talked nonsense for hours at a stretch but that doesn't permit people to draw the conclusion that something is cooking between the two. Sometimes the contentment and the freedom that one experiences in friendship far exceeds the pleasure of a relationship so much so that love fails to fit itself anywhere in the frame.
I fail to understand why it is difficult for the spectators to gulp the fact that a pure friendship can prevail between a gal and a guy and not all dots can be connected to bring the love angle into picture. One is really in such a comfort zone that it doesn't really matter how the world interprets the "Just friends" as "Just friends" but I guess it is high time that we start accepting it. Two people may act crazy, do peppy things, enjoy each other’s company but may not be a couple and that is when they start calling each other "Just friends".
Sometimes the thought of risking your friendship for love may not appeal you, sometimes the suffocation of a relationship may scare you, sometimes there is absolutely no romantic love to your friendship, sometimes it may be a mutual decision to stick to being just friends but in any case I believe the world should let them continue hanging by that thin thread between love and friendship and let them be "Just friends"!!!
