FRIENDSHIP !

It’s difficult to find genuine people now. Way back in school days, we called that person a friend who stayed the longest time with us; person who shared his/her lunch box with us, person who sat next to us in the school bus.

What an innocent way of choosing friends! - A relationship which required no judgment.

We step out of school without giving a thought that we spent our life’s longest years with those friends and we are happy about saying good-bye.

With no negativity in this relationship, we teens put forward our hand for friendship with the same innocence.

We see the faces of friends changing as time passes by and then it is no more about them just accompanying us for a movie but it is about they being there for us when we need them the most.

Betrayals in friendship shock the innocent mind and we wonder this human creation of God.

We question the right and the wrong and we begin to realize that some people we are surrounded with have stopped asking these questions to their conscience.

"Everyone’s not the same" and you get into relationships again with this thought.

Some who are obvious about their evil thoughts and you discard them right away. But you were unaware of those devils wearing the mask of friendship before you.

Attitude! This weapon builds a wall around you and does not let people approach you easily. Some get intimidated and some stay away thinking you are way too snobbish.

You think you have succeeded but you have stopped friendship from coming to you, you have stopped love from coming to you.

Today as adults you welcome relationships after keen observation and only when you have tested the person to the battery of psychological test.

You do not realize that you are actually testing them and the innocence of a relationship has got lost forever.

You do not wish to risk your soul once again and there is a lot of judgment and less of feeling now.
Everything becomes so mechanical day by day.

People say words and those words we analyze, we find out the intention behind it.

People are around us and we call them friends because they are the ones to listen to us when we need someone to talk.

People we think of as friends, people who can listen to us, wipe our tears, but they are the first ones to back out when the whole world goes against us.

It may not be a big deal to give your ear to listen to someone.

It may not be a big deal to wipe someone’s tears, but it indeed is a big deal to have some real guts to stand by this person when no one decides to do that.

And this gesture, I call as friendship.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande