Dosti!! :)

The word “friend” holds a very special place in everyone’s heart…I’m sure all of you would see a face in the innerness of your minds when I say this word. So do I. I see multiple faces…some of whom have been there with me for a really long time, others whom I’ve met very recently but still are special..and some others who are away in distant lands yet remembered and missed a lot!!

A friend in need is a friend indeed goes an old saying….but who really is a friend?? For me, a friend is someone whom I trust immensely and with whom I can be myself to the maximum possible extent. Having been an introvert for most part of my life, I never really understood the true meaning of friendship until about the last year when I bumped into a couple of people who were able to bring me out of my self-constructed cocoon!! I’m just amazed that I’ve finally managed to get out of that shell…and one single thanks will do no justice to the gratitude I have towards them. It’s like I’m living a whole new life with a set of idiotic, stupid, crazy, insane yet extremely lovable and caring friends. I’m lucky that I’ve had very good friends throughout my life, with whom I’ve spent some of the most memorable years of my life…I’ve always had a gang of 7-8 people who’ve been utmost fun to hang out with. But all these years I never felt the need to share myself…to open up and talk to people and understand their feelings or maybe I didn’t want to..maybe I was like a frog in a well who thought that the well he lived in was the only place in the world, maybe.

I’ve met friends of all kinds in life….people, who go bonkers over things like chocolates and cricket, those who come drunk to class and yell at the teacher, those who can just cheer up anyone by their sheer presence, those who can keep ‘laughing on laughing’ till they get tears in their eyes and pain in their tummies and those who can keep a sleepover active till 6.30 in the morning!!:) Aint I glad??

Friendship means different things to different people....for some its just about expressing their innermost thoughts and feelings, sharing and caring for each other. For some others its about having the maximum possible fun while together! I’d call them ‘fun friends’ with whom you can be sure of having a really good time. For those who live in hostels, friends double up as their family as well…a few of my hostelite friends have an altogether different story to narrate. They spend every moment of their lives with their buddies…they eat together, study together, fight with each other and are always there for each other..and always here means that you can rely upon your friend to make maggi for you at 3 a.m!!:)

Whatever has been spoken about the 6 letter word FRIEND is really too little to describe who a true friend really is, because that way I’d have to talk about my whole life, since friendship simply means life to me :)Dedicated to all those amazingly wonderful people around me, love you guys:)