Of Friendships Found and Lost...
With the popularity of social networking sites spreading like wildfire, number is all that seems to matter...the number of friends you have on your profile that is...It all somehow brings it down to a number...The more 'friends' i have, the more popular i think i am...Random people, random acquaintances, business associates, colleagues at work, sometimes even strangers, qualify as 'friends'.
If we have only a few but 'real' friends, aren't we more blessed than those who have N number of friends, but nobody to listen to them or talk to, when they want...People too busy with their own routines to spare a minute or share a thought with people they care about...
I used to be of the impression that friendships should be effortless, that communication should somehow just flow, yet, with time and age, i now know it differently. Any relationship needs to be nurtured, one has to make that effort... if only to make that phone call, or to write that mail, or to just reach out and say 'Hi'...
Sometimes, how conveniently we let the distance set in, in our friendships...how, more often than not, we let time take its ultimate toll on the friendships. Of friendships found and lost...
Of friendships lost and found too, as this is about friends, who have reached out and were there when they were most needed, without being told, without being asked...this is to all my friends who cared, shared and spared time when they were needed...unconditionally...
If we have only a few but 'real' friends, aren't we more blessed than those who have N number of friends, but nobody to listen to them or talk to, when they want...People too busy with their own routines to spare a minute or share a thought with people they care about...
I used to be of the impression that friendships should be effortless, that communication should somehow just flow, yet, with time and age, i now know it differently. Any relationship needs to be nurtured, one has to make that effort... if only to make that phone call, or to write that mail, or to just reach out and say 'Hi'...
Sometimes, how conveniently we let the distance set in, in our friendships...how, more often than not, we let time take its ultimate toll on the friendships. Of friendships found and lost...
Of friendships lost and found too, as this is about friends, who have reached out and were there when they were most needed, without being told, without being asked...this is to all my friends who cared, shared and spared time when they were needed...unconditionally...
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