Saturday, November 1, 2008

A Tribute To Freindship

From the very begining of life, everyone feels a need for a companion. Initially we seek companions or friends for satisfying our innate urge of social acceptance. Having friend gives us a feeling that we are acceptable to the people around us and every human being needs his group of friends to learn, share and grow with. Slowly and gradually the need for love and affection also takes over the human mind and we start striving to make a place in our group of friends so as to gain their acceptance, love and affection.

FRIEND is the name given to that person who stands by us through our thick and thin and friendship is one of the most beautiful relationship that binds us with the people who were strangers sometime back. Friendship is involved in all the facets of our life and we may find a friend in anyone, maybe our batchmates, neighbours, parents, spouse, family member etc. It may acquire any form but its purpose remains the same i.e. to fill our life with joy, happiness and optimism.

Friends are like leaves of the tree that provide shadow to the passersby, they provide nutrition to the tree to grow and flourish and when they leave their branches during the autumn season they mix up in the soil to form composite which is again used by the tree . Friendship, on the other hand, is like the root of the tree which spreads itself underneath in all directions to give a strong foundation to the tree.

Friends may or may not have common interests but most of the time it’s the purpose that binds us together with the friend. Like our college/ school friends whom we met in the college/ school, they might have had different interests but we were there(school/ college) to share a common objective and that is to study . Then there are neighbourhood friends whom we meet while socialising around the neighbourhood and then there are friends of friends who also share the similar objectives with us. Once we recognize the friends around us the process of bonding begins .

The process of bonding is basically based on our compatibility with the other person i.e. the more compatible we are with the person the more close the relationship is and thus we classify some of them as friends, some as good friends and some as really close and dear friends. The informal relationship that we have with these really close and dear friends helps us to share our innermost feelings of joy, sorrow, success etc and thereby we can say it is an outlet for human emotions as almost everyone in one at some point of time needs someone to share his success or failures with and if we don’t it gets accumulated deep within and can make a person feel worse.



Friendship is one the most undervalued virtue by human beings. Whenever we find ourselves in some problem or feeling low about something, all we need is a few comforting words from a friend to cheer up our life again. It’s really wonderful to have a friend with whom we can share our innermost feelings of joy as well as sorrow.


After graduating from this beautiful campus which is just like a emerald isle, I can’t say that how many of friend’s name I may remember in future, but on one point, I am damn sure that in a tiny space of my mind, all of the memories of our wonderful friendship, full of sharing and snatching , smiling and chaffing, will get embodied permanently.

Thanks to all you friend for your timeless friendship, which are enough to bring a smirk or harangue of tears at any moment of my life. That’s all I have to say.

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