The thought of writing this blog came to me just few minutes back. As soon as this topic hit me I was all excited about it because this is something that I absolutely love and I wanted to document something that I'm proud off - My Friends.
'Friends are the family we choose'. Heard it before? me too. This is so true. We meet people with a smile, strike small conversations, start to like each other and fall in love with each other and before you know it you would have made a friend. A beautiful relationship called Friendship is created. You created this relation so be proud of it. Friendship is a blessing more than we realise. We are allowed to be weak, we are allowed to be rude, we are allowed to be stupid, we are allowed to be what we want to be when we want to be and at the end of it, all is forgiven and all is well. How does that work? There is no formula or no thesis at the end of which I can say 'Hence proven'. But it always works. At the end everything is fine with no backlogs. The slate is clean once again. Whereas with family or any other relationship this may not be true. People tend to carry forward the past. In many of our lives Friendship doesn get credit as much as it deserves. Family does. Family gets more importance than any other relationship in our society. I don't say it shouldn't but my point is Friendship doesn't.
Friends give you space to be who you want to be. They always encourage, they are always trying to make the whole atmosphere filled with laughter. Friends don't care if you fail again and again at something. If they believe in what you are doing they give all their support and say 'Try once again macha. This time you will surely get it'. Sometimes when your friends know you are doing something really stupid, which they know you are not made for, they don't hesitate or think what if you feel offended if they say what they want to say. They don't care what you would think of them nor do they care if they would offend you but they will put some sense into your head. They don't worry about what you would think about them all they care is you are in right track.
Why is that most of us like our school or college friends more than the ones we make during your professional life? Is it beacause those friends we had long back were very real to us and now we all are trying to be politically correct to each other? When we grow up why is what others think becomes more important than what you truely are? God didn't create you to impress someone else. He created you to be who you are inspite of what others think of you. I wish I knew how to get back the lost time and correct my mistakes and say sorry to the friends whom I have lost on my way. I dont want to regret again after couple of years. But I want to be real and I want real friends. No more being diplomatically correct.
Everyone is capable of making friends that is something that is natural to us humans. If you don't have any friends its because you are holding yourself back and going out there and meeting new people. You might be out in a new place, make new friends, get out of your comfort zone there are billions out there with whom you can fall in love or at least one out there who needs you. Be there for them your old friends are not running anywhere away. They will be there for you. Don't be scared, the max that can happen is not get a smile back.
I'm so blessed to have found a friend who gave me the space to be what I want to be, who has always been supportive, for telling me when I was acting stupid and then standing with me all this while. Right now I just want to hug her and say I so blessed to have her and that I love her(I did call her but did not say all nice things..we generally talked. Its so comforting. :)). She din't let anything change between us. I hope all of you have found one such friend.
Its not like she is the only one friend who has been good to me, who has stood by me or who has always been there for me. I have couple more of them. That is why I said I'm blessed. I know they are gift from God. God knows who exactly to be put in our life to make our life beautiful and worth living.
I know I haven't told this enough but I love you guys. I'm sorry if I was not there for you when you needed me. You better forgive me. You dont want to miss out on what is to come. You haven't seen my best yet. Love you.
JOHN 15:13 - 'Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends'
PS: The above all was about the ones who live with my physically, but there is one who lives with me spiritually and the love that I have in him is what completes you all for me.
PPS: This is a quote I found on internet 'The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families' --Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages. Please dont let my family know :D
'Friends are the family we choose'. Heard it before? me too. This is so true. We meet people with a smile, strike small conversations, start to like each other and fall in love with each other and before you know it you would have made a friend. A beautiful relationship called Friendship is created. You created this relation so be proud of it. Friendship is a blessing more than we realise. We are allowed to be weak, we are allowed to be rude, we are allowed to be stupid, we are allowed to be what we want to be when we want to be and at the end of it, all is forgiven and all is well. How does that work? There is no formula or no thesis at the end of which I can say 'Hence proven'. But it always works. At the end everything is fine with no backlogs. The slate is clean once again. Whereas with family or any other relationship this may not be true. People tend to carry forward the past. In many of our lives Friendship doesn get credit as much as it deserves. Family does. Family gets more importance than any other relationship in our society. I don't say it shouldn't but my point is Friendship doesn't.
Friends give you space to be who you want to be. They always encourage, they are always trying to make the whole atmosphere filled with laughter. Friends don't care if you fail again and again at something. If they believe in what you are doing they give all their support and say 'Try once again macha. This time you will surely get it'. Sometimes when your friends know you are doing something really stupid, which they know you are not made for, they don't hesitate or think what if you feel offended if they say what they want to say. They don't care what you would think of them nor do they care if they would offend you but they will put some sense into your head. They don't worry about what you would think about them all they care is you are in right track.
Why is that most of us like our school or college friends more than the ones we make during your professional life? Is it beacause those friends we had long back were very real to us and now we all are trying to be politically correct to each other? When we grow up why is what others think becomes more important than what you truely are? God didn't create you to impress someone else. He created you to be who you are inspite of what others think of you. I wish I knew how to get back the lost time and correct my mistakes and say sorry to the friends whom I have lost on my way. I dont want to regret again after couple of years. But I want to be real and I want real friends. No more being diplomatically correct.
Everyone is capable of making friends that is something that is natural to us humans. If you don't have any friends its because you are holding yourself back and going out there and meeting new people. You might be out in a new place, make new friends, get out of your comfort zone there are billions out there with whom you can fall in love or at least one out there who needs you. Be there for them your old friends are not running anywhere away. They will be there for you. Don't be scared, the max that can happen is not get a smile back.
I'm so blessed to have found a friend who gave me the space to be what I want to be, who has always been supportive, for telling me when I was acting stupid and then standing with me all this while. Right now I just want to hug her and say I so blessed to have her and that I love her(I did call her but did not say all nice things..we generally talked. Its so comforting. :)). She din't let anything change between us. I hope all of you have found one such friend.
Its not like she is the only one friend who has been good to me, who has stood by me or who has always been there for me. I have couple more of them. That is why I said I'm blessed. I know they are gift from God. God knows who exactly to be put in our life to make our life beautiful and worth living.
I know I haven't told this enough but I love you guys. I'm sorry if I was not there for you when you needed me. You better forgive me. You dont want to miss out on what is to come. You haven't seen my best yet. Love you.
JOHN 15:13 - 'Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends'
PS: The above all was about the ones who live with my physically, but there is one who lives with me spiritually and the love that I have in him is what completes you all for me.
PPS: This is a quote I found on internet 'The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families' --Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages. Please dont let my family know :D
