Sunday, August 5, 2018

Friends for the Soul


They come as a motley..sprinkled here and there on your life journeys…spicing up your routine or simply omnipresent through your existence – the umbrella word of warmth called friendship!

Friends who hold your lifeline together -  from the ones with whom you shared your crayons, your ‘first crush’ stories, your ‘hostel bickering’, your ‘career conflicts’ and now to your ‘matrimonial and motherhood itches’ and all that comes in between.

We find them at intersections and promenades of our lives – in that crowded school bus dripping with ice cream on a scorching ‘academic’ afternoon..in the midst of a grueling dance practice..on a nervous college admissions day..while burning ‘corporate midnight oils’ or simply when you wait to pick your kid from school.

Friendship that germinates, roots itself and then spreads its shade over your life – giving you fleeting moments of freedom from the social jackets that we tailor for ourselves..the soothing voice that counsels and veers you off the frustrations that life sometimes throws on you..bringing the ‘fire’ and ‘fun’ elements into the drab that your days sometimes turn into!

Friendship sometimes also fill the fault lines created by blood lines and relationships that got thrust in your life by birth. The perfect panacea for the heartaches and headaches that you invite into your life ‘playing the family person’!

You cannot predict, measure, compare or reason it out – some humans that you chose as the anchor to your life storms ..some individuals you bonded and fused with and cannot still understand why..some buddies who strip you bare of your colour, creed and ‘garbs’ and touch the bundle of emotions that you can simply and effortlessly slip into..

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