I’ll be there for you ..

I stood amidst the swirling crowd of students ,gushing out of the building ,calling out to their friends to hurry up so that they could giggle and chatter in the 5 minutes span of reaching their buses(as though they can talk something in that 5 minutes that they haven’t talked for the entire day!).The entire campus was peppered with groups of students. Some of them would ocassionally stop on their way to check if all their friends were following and if not sending a search party for the lost musketeer.

Standing amidst the churning  ,restless crowd , I turned to my class to see my friends.I knew each and every face so well ,yet it felt like meeting acquaintances.Here is the underlying paradox- you know them so well but still you don’t know them.......

For once decelerate your life,slow down the cogs and wheels of life, slow down the amplitude of its swing and silently intraspect.You might actually have a butload of friends and an even everlasting facebook friend list.You might have even heard the the new airtel ad song- har ek friend zaruri hotha he …. , that has hit the screens.  But remove those invisible ropes of complacency and shrug off that deceiving blanket of oblivion,and ponder – kithne friends  zaruri me athe he ? how many of these friends actually justify all the aspects of a true friend?

Ask all these rhetorical questions-

How many of them check up on you when you are upset at home?

How many of them feel that you deserve every detail of their life ?

How many of them thank you from the bottom of their heart when you give them the much wanted happiness they have  longed for ?

How many of them wonder if you have problems or not ?

How many of them treat your secrets as gossip ?

How many of them pay heed to your opinion even if it is contradictory to their interests ?

Open your inner eye and let self relisation hit you.Let the shock waves hit you one by one…

When you try answering all the above questions, the actual count of your friends might be easily summable.

So next time don’t fool yourself by saying the world loves you.The no of friends who actually stand by you when the world disposes you is your actual treasure.

Cherish such friends and treat them with much more respect than they deserve .

True friends are a lubrication to every elementary nut and bolt in the mechanism of life .

When you listen to your heart singing in tune with your machinery, you know everything is alright especially when you know someone expresses her downright opinion without caring about if you’ll hate them because deep inside you know that she cares about you.