“You find out who your true friends are when you are involved in a scandal”
…..Elizabeth Taylor
The lady couldn’t have nailed it better. It does not matter as to who came first in your life or who cared the most. What eventually does matter in the long run is, who came and never left, especially when you needed them the most.
It’s not a cowards job to be a friend. It takes a lot of guts to stand by your friends when they are going through deep shit. Not easy….but definitely worth it. And only the brave choose to do it…the rest, like Rats abandon ship.
A Best friend is said to be like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have. Trust me the clover’s are easier to find.
Our lives are crammed with life-changing encounters, that eventually adds up in building our character and defining our persona. . I believe, these are challenges that life throws at us. How we handle these challenges and emerge out of it largely contributes to the kind of person we eventually become.
I recently faced a similar challenge, that did leave me a bit shattered and numb for some time. Someone I knew (wouldn’t call her a friend, coz she never was actually) turned on me and she used a popular social networking website to unleash her fury and spew venom. She abused me on the wall of a group that we both belonged to. And the woman could really abuse. I mean the real raised-in-the-slum-kind. She took the term ‘foul-mouthed’ to totally new heights. However much they try, class and taste just elude some people!!
What came as a shocker was not her choice of words but the ‘calculated silence’ of some of my so-called friends. Some acted as if nothing happened, while some decided to lie down n play dead. They actually chose to ride the fence than, stand up for me. That hurt!!...Deeply!!..
Friends Forever!!!...Yeah right!!!....Till a fight does us apart!!!
Now I see the humour in it…then I was very angry and shaken…To me my friends are serious business. They are my extended family and not something that i rely on for entertaining myself when I get bored. But even that dark cloud had a silver lining. This stinky incident acted like a sieve through the clutter of people in my life and gave me my True Friends….Shiny n New….:)). They are a fistful , but they are for real. I know I just have to holler and they gonna be there for me…always…unconditionally!!
| Kri.,.Sow n Me |
As for all my fake friends, I have just made myself unavailable to most of them, coz I don’t exactly live by the phrase ‘fake it, till u make it’. God should actually put sign-posts along the roads of life, the ones that say “Tread carefully, fake friends ahead”.
Having a true friend, the forever kind is a blessing, but comes for a price. To have a friend you need to be one too. It’s a two-way street. Some times a mere hug, or to have someone hold your hands really helps and goes a long way in reducing the emotional built-up and relieving the stress, at the end of the day. Don’t we all, at some point in life yearn for someone to just hug us and assure us that ‘Tomorrow will be a better day’??. Be like the tree, with a trunk strong enough for your friends to lean on when they are too weak to stand up on their own…with huge, leafy branches to shade and protect them from life’s blinding sun.
I quote Oprah Winfrey…” Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down”
I have found my bus-mates. Have you??
CHILDHOOD MATES!!
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| Me, Prita, Pinky n Chinu...:)) |
I recently bumped into a cupla childhood mates of mine. We had kinda lost touch. But when we reconnected it was as if we had never been outta touch and we just took off from where we had left . It was so rejuvenating, re-living all those old memories with them, and recreating new ones. Chinu, prita, pinks…its awesum to have you guys back in my life…:))
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| with Maya |
P .S….. My Kit-Kat tells me, she may not be wid me to share my joys, but she’ll always be beside me to share my pain…that just warms the cockles of my heart. Kiu, your presence don’t need to be validated by pictures..you know you are there…always…:)). Maya…how will I ever thank you for all the things you have taught me. I always strive to make you proud of me!!


Hey kalpi
ReplyDeletei was waiting for the picture to realease today (ur post )
beautiful post yet again ...
i still stand by my sentence ...guess we can have fun with even strangers ,office colleagues ,neighbors or anybody for that matter
but sorrows,ups and down -we can only share with friends .....
thank u for being my that spcl friend and lending your shoulder so many times to cry...
we might have lot of differences or different choices in life ...but that wouldnt be barrier to being a true friend :)
haina kalpi?
Thk u sweedie...you are the reason, for my return to blogville..:))...differances actually doesnt hinder any relationship...we may have teething problems initially coz of the differances...but tht still doesnt stop us frm standing up for the one we love...for that one needs to have a SPINE, nothing else...n i found out the hard way that many people around us dont have it...:))
ReplyDeletehaaaaaaaaaan yes ....friednship is like trying new cloths na kalpi ..
ReplyDeletewe actually try and see if it fits properly or not .....
same way we have to figure out way to find friends ...some dont match upto what we want the friends to be
some fit in our life beautifully :)
beautifully put dahlin..:))
ReplyDeleteI am a skeptic when it comes to the word 'forever'.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, couldn't agree more that a few gems among the masses are hard to find and when found, such a treasure to uphold many times. :)
Beautiful post.
kappu..beautifully written..:)
ReplyDelete@ blush...skeptic it is amy..its an highly overrated term..not to be taken seriouslyy at all..:))
ReplyDelete@ akka
thank u akka...n feel free to express yourself here...its just us...:))