Today we study the curious mannerisms of the homo sapiens relating particularly to their interactions with other homo sapiens who share a bright relation with each other that enables them to help each other survive in this blood thirsty world.
Well I am just trying to form a definition for the word friendship that sounds complicated enough to stick in the annuls of scientific study and will eventually get published so that in future people would say "Friendship as defined by Alse" (winking smiley). Anyways on this friendship day it is appropriate to discuss who exactly is a friend.
Making new friends is pretty easy. I mean we are all creatures of habit and do have an innate sense of goodness and the need for people around us (hopefully!!). So just any place from a movie theater to a government office we can make acquaintances and have a nice time chatting up with them. By all means they are friends too. It is finding ones that last forever which is a little more tricky. A friend is a person who by strict habit makes fun of you when you are in the worst situation of your life and the fact that you don't take it as an offense is what makes the bond so special. The weird part about the whole scenario is that you actually feel better after this inhuman teasing session and you are actually ready to take on the world if this person is with you. Such characteristics have been displayed by none of the other species in the animal kingdom which makes us the insane ones when we depart from a rational way of thinking.
Sure a dog is a man's best friend but have to yet hear of a dog being a dog's best friend. The insanity does not stop there. The distinct nature of humans is to discuss all sorts of secrets with friends and not parents really baffles me. The person who is responsible for you existence comes second to the persons whom you meet at various points in your life and they end up being more trust worthy. We would prefer spending more time with friends and actually end up having the best times of our lives.
Friendship is actually a beautiful bond that is like an imperfect heart. Curios about why i put that one up? It reminds me of a story of a guy who had such a perfect looking heart that he was proud of it and grew vain because everyone admired its perfection. Then along came an old man with a heart that was jagged and imperfect but what the guy could not understand was how the heart was so bright and it was actually more beautiful than his own perfect heart. When he asked the old man for the secret of the bright heart, the old dude said it was because he had given a piece of his heart to all his friends who in turn had given him a piece of their hearts. The guy realised somethings are worth way more than perfection and ripped a chunk of his heart to give to the old man.
It is the smaller things in life that are the important things. So in that aspect friendship is the smallest big thing in our life without which there is no way life is going to be beautiful. The times that are forever fixed in our memories are the good times with friends - a birthday cake cutting, a crying shoulder, sharing that samosa when your budget is stretched thin, an adventurous outing, that Vijay movie where you went with friends and bought the theater down with your laughter, times when you were down and your friend comes over and says "machi same pinch". Well all the above are priceless.
One can keep going on and on about friends who are this bunch of foolhardy fellows are ever ready to follow you into the river of styx if need be to make sure you are unhurt and in turn you would also be ready to follow them to the ends of the world if they needed you to do so. The beauty cannot be described properly even by the best penmanship. All I will say is Friend is always without an end and it is like the imperfection of a circle. Bet that you will have a hard time trying to find an imperfection on a circle. TO FRIENDS THE LIGHT OF LIFE CHEERIO!!!
