| F.R.I.E.N.D.S. | | | | do. We should be pleased that they chose you to be |
| I recently have come across my old friends, with | | | | their friend and vice a versa. I believe that the |
| whom I had lost touch over the years. Some are my | | | | friends reflect some important truth about who you |
| school /college batch mates, some my colleagues | | | | are. |
| with whom I had spent my few years working I | | | | Have any one of ever thought where do we fit in |
| have remembered all of them in some way or the | | | | this friends lives. There is a huge uncertainty, because |
| other , by sharing what all we did with the new | | | | many of us are just connection threads. And in this |
| friends I made along the path of life. | | | | absence of uncertainty and assumptions sometime |
| But still they feeling of getting in touch with them | | | | we get horribly surprised!!!!! |
| again and remembering the old days really brought | | | | How many times you have seen that a person who |
| the thrill back in me and made me think , what a | | | | is on the top of the friend list and just one small |
| wonderful thing it is to be a FRIEND and how | | | | thing or may be a big issue, the person is out of the |
| beautiful is FRIENDSHIP. | | | | list. OR |
| Friendship has certain status in our society, it is in | | | | When you expected the most that your friend would |
| contrast with all those relationships over which we | | | | stand by your side in your rough times and you have |
| have no control or may be a little control. The | | | | realized that they have all withered away. |
| families we can’t change, neighbor’s who | | | | Friendship use to be different in the past , friends |
| irritated us, and collegues with whom we have to put | | | | use to meet often ,exchange wishes and had loads |
| up with, friends are the only freely chosen part of | | | | of aquatancies . But today the meaning of friendship |
| your life and it’s assured that those relationships | | | | and friends everything has changed. If you can join |
| are most pleasurable. | | | | for a drink over the weekend of course , “ |
| I would say friendship is just a simple bond which | | | | YOU ARE GREAT MATES “. |
| two people share who like each other’s | | | | For how many of us friendship has meant that caring |
| company. It is definitely full on hidden assumptions | | | | for each other, taking care of each other children |
| and lots of unspoken words. There is no argument as | | | | when required. |
| to what all friendship involve, or what when it gets a | | | | We can start to thinking about it and being more |
| little sour (as it may get sometimes), and what if you | | | | honest about our ownself and what we like about |
| are hurt. It’s a delicate affair and I suggest why | | | | our own friends , what needs they fulfill and what |
| to load it with lots of demands, it’s better to | | | | we are prepared to do for them. |
| absorb the hurt and retreat. | | | | We should create this powerful bond. It isn’t |
| If you ask people, they define FRIENDSHIP in many | | | | easy as friendship is as subtle dance. We all have to |
| ways. For some its loyalty, for some it is something | | | | understand that people are unpredictable but we |
| which has no obligations, some would say it is more | | | | have to play the game of friendship .people with |
| important to them then their marriage /family, few | | | | friends tend to live longer then the ones without, |
| would say they would die for friendships and for few | | | | that’s what the study has said. |
| it would mean nothing at all. | | | | After all friendship defines what it means to be |
| Most of us feel pride about their friends, at least I | | | | human. |