Hello all, phew ...this has been a long time coming. I’ve been toying with this idea for some time now, however I didn’t know how to bring this to closure.
After deliberations amany, I decided to take the high road rather than the eccentric one. Humility I’m told will take one a long way or at least that is what I would like to believe right now anyway.
We’ve all received countless emails enlightening us on the virtue of friends. The gist of those emails was that a true friend is not the one who’s with you in the best of times but the one who sticks by you in the worst of times and thanking you for being one among them. How can SMS’s be left far behind when we are speaking of emails. There was this SMS I had received sometime back which I found rather amusing. It goes something like this –
“A friend is one who sticks by you when you are going through a rough phase, but a true friend is one when you are down, slaps you hard, yells at you and does whatever it takes to force you out of your cocoon which you have built for yourself in those times.”
I have had my share of friends, good or otherwise, but when it comes to dealing with problems, I have dealt with them rather independently. The idea of someone helping me out in a problem of mine, of my own doing was rather too hard to fathom. This notion of mine was shattered recently when a friend of mine held me by the scruff of my neck and dragged me out of my slump. The “slap” was the hardest and it hurt enough to get me back on track. I guess when you spend a lot of time with a group, your actions start affecting the group in its entirety. I hadn’t realized it then, but with each passing day I have come to realize that fact.
While I still do not prefer people meddling in my life, I have come to realize that a little of meddling, support in my case always helps. And yeah, to that friend of mine... Thank You, I should have done this sometime back but, Better late than never right...
Cheers to friends.
