A friend in need is a friend indeed, eh?

  Raising eyebrows, eh? Well, you should peeps. This age-old proverb has been seeped into us right from kindergarten days, hasn’t it? I have finally decided to break this myth and introduce to you a new meaning of ‘Friendship’ altogether.

  Let’s put it this way :

‘A parent in need is a parent indeed’

                     Or

‘A sibling in need is a sibling indeed’

  Sounds crappy, hain na? So I have a point over here that you love your family and care about them irrespective of their imperfections. So why the hell be choosy while befriending someone? We all have been endowed with the fact that human beings are imperfect creations of God. We are born imperfect, raised imperfectly and die with imperfections. And duh, we need everything perfect, even friends!

   Imagine yourself in a terrible mess! You can’t think upon anything right and go all haywire, the first you look upon as help is your friend. Agreed, they are always come to your rescue. But somehow due to their own personal problems, they can’t reach out to you.  Well, should that provoke you to unfriend ( a technical term Facebook introduced) them? Certainly not! You don’t leave your family if your demands and wishes are not fulfilled by them. Or you don’t quit talking to your brother/ sister if they fail to pay heed to your desires and needs.

  Likewise, a friend is also an integral part of your life as your family is. They are the mood swingers. The best moments are shared with them. We laugh, cry, fight with them. We speak our hearts out to them. Yet we yearn for a so-called ‘Perfect’ friend who can rather be your PR or Assistant or your Bodyguard and not merely be a ‘friend’.

  So here are my words of wisdom (I am being prophetic, par chalta hain!) to you’ll :

Learn to embrace imperfections coz you are yourself not-so-perfect. Don’t make friends on the condition on how you want them to treat you but let them treat you as they want. And I am damn sure a ‘friend’ (true, good, best....whatever you call one) may harass you or be troublesome but loves you and cares for you in the best possible way. Showing off, the love and care (but obvious), is not necessary. And yeah, learn to give them the personal space. You just can't break a friendship coz your friend is busy with his own life.

    I hope I managed to brainwash your cynical brains. Criticism appreciated!

Much love and peace my honeybuns!