Do You Have A Friend?

Friend

Google it and you find 1,790,000,000 results in 0.25 seconds. Woah!

Now name your true friend.

It is impossible for me to name a single person. I have many friends and the coveted spot can’t accommodate all.

Sitting alone in my room thinking about nothing in particular, I suddenly had this urge to thank all the wonderful friends I have.

So Thank You to all my friends

Thanks to the ones who

Love me

Understand me

Do Not judge me

Think well for me

Made me meet me

Want the best for me

Know what to buy from where

Support me when I am in trouble

Silently listen to my mindless chatter

Share their wildest fantasies with me

Keep a place for me when I am late

Know how I am feeling by my voice

Accept me as I am with all my flaws

Know the answers to all my questions

Make me laugh when I am at my worst

Know the lyrics to all my favourite songs

Make me feel high when I hit rock bottom

Helped me recognise how strong I really am

Make me feel special by what they say or do

Put up with my bad mood or my mood swings

Believed in me when I failed to recognise my self

Help me out however they can whenever they can

Pick up from where we left like nothing has changed

Judge me, criticise me and in the end still support me

Know when I am happy or sad just by looking at me
Run out of balance talking to me & still talk for hours daily

Have been/were/are there for me without me asking them to

Trust me with their secrets. (It is an honour to be a secret-keeper)

Tell me the story of the movies they watched just because I can’t wait to watch it

May not find time to call me otherwise but always make it a point to call me on my birthday

Became my friend when we both least expected it. (I can never work out what our connection is.)

Give me a call as soon as I land whether at home or back in India (The thought that you miss me so much takes me to a different place altogether)

There are also some other friends I must thank. These friends are of a different kind.

Friends who

Defined “fair-weather friends”

Deserted me at my darkest times

Taught me that not all deserve our trust
Showed me how cruel the world can be

Trained me to forgive those who give us wounds that may never heal

Made me realise that nothing stays forever and we have to learn to let go

Only took without giving back anything, without even giving back any friendship

These are friends whom I may remember longer because the lessons they taught run deeper.

Now why did I suddenly sit and write all about this friendship?

Don’t know.

Chatted with another, wished a friend on her birthday, spoke to a friend (who listens to my daily chatter like it is the most important thing in the world), and all of a sudden sat down to write about my friends.

My friends would understand. I do random things at times. This is one of them.

Until Next Time

Yours Friendly

Fatima