Sunday, August 3, 2008

FRIENDSHIP : YOU NEED IT

A person in solitude cannot live on as such forever. In today’s haywire life where there are loads of tension and troubles we search for a soul with whom we can share our thoughts, our emotions, our interests, and our life. This Friendship Day I too am in search of a true friend, a real one. But isn’t it surprising that at 21, I still couldn’t find a good friend, its quiet understandable that most of you might laugh at me and think "What a jerk is he! He couldn’t even find a friend?" but I would counter this question to you: “Do you have a real friend? Real in all senses, the one who stands by you, the one who doesn’t question your existence, the one in whom you can trust with closed eyes.
"I’ll just count till ten, yes your best friend who you think will take care yours, after you: 1.2.3....8.9.10. Ok leave it I know I just asked something too much."

It would be a rare case where you would find a trusty worthy friend. In his essay ‘Of Friendship' Sir Francis Bacon says that, “A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce". He says that friendship give the feel of fullness. It helps to make life easier and offers a vent to emotions and feelings. There are many secrets which we don’t know to whom we would confide them to, for these are the secrets of your life and for that a friend is the rescue, but a bad friend would spill your secrets every where . Even kings and monarchs kept close intimacies to share their feelings and thoughts.

But is it so difficult to find a true friend, the answer is yes. Every individual have perception of how a real friend is, and we are in search of him. By now you may have come to know about my perception of my friend and I know from the beginning that I won’t find a person as such. I too have lot many friends but to say a person of my perception is quiet difficult to be discovered.
"It is said that whosoever is delighted in Solitude is either a wild beast or a God.” Many of you say, write, think that books are the best friends, are they really so for they definitely give a new insight, take away your loneliness, and also takes us to a new world where we tend to forget our immediate troubles and tensions. But soon the reality bites and we stand alone to face this tormenting world without a helping and a support. So we all are looking forward for a good friend, we do have to make some compromise with our selection of friend.


Something which you should know to make friends is that Friends don't have to be exactly the same. Friends have similarities but they also have their differences. The key to opening up the world of friendship is not only to expand on similarities but to accept each other's faults, because you can't ever judge your friend. Friends have to argue! No one likes to but it is necessary to be healthy. Cause if you agree on everything, either the government has expanded cloning subjects or someone isn't being true and is trying a little too hard. Friends love unconditionally. They have there little angry moments but what's done is done and all is forgive and forget. Why let something that happened in the past ruin what happiness you could have in the future? , friends are forever. But only if you keep it that way. Some people think that you have to know someone really well to become good friends. Trust me, it's not true. If the first time you really spend time together you talk for 25 hours straight until 4:30 in the morning about some topic you thought no one else in the world understood, then, that's real love at first sight. Don't diss your buds, love them instead. And when they drive you nuts, love them that much more for being just a little bit different and maybe just a little bit quirky!
The recipe for having a good friend is to be friend yourself. If you know want you want in a friend you also know what your friend wants from you , if you are a business man you will quickly understand to where I am leading : I want to say that do what you want your friend to do for you and your friend will do the same for you for he will understand your emotions . But unlike business friendship is not a trade; it’s a game of emotions to understand that you feel love in your heart towards what you do for your friend. ‘Faith, hope and charity constitute the core of human friendship. When going is hard, lonely, sad, desperate we get the chance to experience the sweetness of friendship. We need the friends to cherish the most wondrous moments of the life, to be happy with you. The friend believes you, trust you, love you and most of all teaches you the right meaning of being a friend. So hope I too find my best friend and so do you! And for those who have already found them; preserve them, for they are one of your most important possessions of life! Wishing all a very HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY!!

with Love

aashish