An Ode to Friendship

To all those who still believe in a relationship that goes no further than what its meant to be...friendship: Life is as perfect as you want it to be...and if ever there was a key to such perfection...it is friends. To have had your buddy look over your shoulder when even you might have not cared to, is what makes it special, and to have done it yourself, ever so unconsciously, is what makes it eternal. School taught us how to make them, college taught us how to hang by them, if not with them, and a post grad does teach you how to treasure them.

Friendship has been such an abused word—a stepping stone to what we all call “love”. Oh its beautiful they tell me, and its not friendship they are referring to, it is invariably love. Ask yourself these questions, and maybe you will realise how much for granted we always take our friends. Who do you turn to when things go wrong?? Whose shoulder do you turn to when you know you can’t do it alone?? Who is your greatest strength, and ironically, your greatest weakness?? Not yet found the answer?? Try this...Try recollecting all the wrongs having been done to you by people...and now try remembering the rights “people” have done to you...the former seems so easy to do...and the latter would make you realise how much you have lost in life and how much more perfect it would have been...had you hung on to the rights and forgiven the wrongs....Now, that is friendship.

From sharing a tiffin in school to sharing a whisky in college...from cracking silly jokes in school to making sillier ones in college...from laughing at others in school to laughing at yourself in college...who is it who has been right there beside you all along...maybe people have changed...maybe the names have too...but it all comes down to a word we all use so often and treasure so little...friends..Can you tell me your first crush...ohh I bet you can...now try remembering who you told about it for the first time...and do you still have him with you as your “friend”??

I wish everyone a wonderful friendship day...It is not a day when we remember our friends...but a day when we celebrate the special bond that we have shared with them...So, cheers to all the friends that have been...and to all those to come...May life turn out to be as perfect as we all wish it to be...

Cheers,

Divyanshu