This is a guest post by Abhay Kanwar.
“A best friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
And the day arrives again! Friendship Day, celebrated every year on the first Sunday of August. As this day approaches, I take time off for a moment and think if i have been taking my best friends for granted. Well sure I moved away to a different city and I am trying to build up a life for myself but I think it’s time to rethink and realign my priorities.
How many close friends do you have? If you have even one you should consider yourself blessed. I happen to have 3 best friends, now am I lucky or what? I’d like to believe, I am. Blue-Exile as we named ourselves on the last day of high school. I still remember that day, where some of us shed a tear or two, the others made lifelong promises to be best friends forever.
I still remember the time, when my teacher made me sit next to the “noodle haired” guy in my class, I was so infuriated that I passed a sly comment, which was loud enough for him to hear, “Damn! I have to sit next to him for the rest of the year”. But little did I know that 7 years down the line, that very guy would be like family to me. You never know who you might find your best friend in.
Nostalgia takes over, when I take a walk down the memory lane. The stupid little crushes, first sip of alcohol, arm wrestling contests, witty yet stupid nicknames for each other, night outs, reckless humor, the never ending phone conversations after spending the entire day at school with my brothers from another mother… The list is endless but each of it has a very special memory attached to it. One of the most special memories that I have of my friends is when we had our first night out.
Becoming gate-crashers at a private party, we took a walk on the wild side that night. This included running for our lives from a watchman carrying a long stick, a semi-naked photo session in the middle of the road at 4 am in the morning, being chased by a vicious canine after we rang someone’s house bell and made a run for it, shouting, “Every man for himself!”. It was an epic night. I would give anything to relive all of it again.
Having friends is one of the things that we love about life. They are the extended members of our family. Although sometimes it looks weird and awkward friends make us laugh even on awful things. That’s the beauty of friendship. They do stupid things, make silly faces and say stupid things which brings smile on our faces. And I am proud to have friends like mine. Never once did they turn their backs on me when I needed them. We helped each other figure out the mysteries of life, being a pillar of support through our tough times, lying to get each other out of trouble, helping to woe the girl we “loved” and last but not the least, clean up after a messy break up. Not so long ago my friends came to drop me at the railway station as I was leaving town, all of us desperately wished that the train got delayed for at least a year, but that wasn’t the case. We said our goodbye’s and as the train was about to leave the station, I shed a tear, knowing that I was leaving behind a bucket full of memories and the people I loved the most in this world.
I can truly say that I value my friends because I lost them and then found them again. I was lucky. For most of us, however, there are times when a really great friend only stays in our lives for a short time. Most of the time, friends are not going to stay in your life forever, and even if they do, your relationship will probably change over the years. Having one true-blue best friend is great, and if it happens to you be thankful. Embrace each friendship, because there is no one-size that fits all, when it comes to our pals.
This is a dedication to my best friends and the members of our group “Blue-Exile”, found 7 years ago by a handful of students of the class of 2008 from an all boys school in Chandigarh. No matter where we are or how old we might get, I hope to find you guys standing in my corner, with a silly grin on your faces.
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