Happy Friendship Day!!!

Friendship is a bond which anyone can’t explain in words, it is the most beautiful bond in this world one has, life without friends is plain and boring. They are someone who pulls our leg, all the time for anything and everything. Someone who always cheer us up even if we are totally screwed up!! We fight, we argue, we laugh and make others laugh… this is friendship. Unconditional like few other relations of this world...

But sometimes we insult the purest relation of this world, sometimes we tend to give more importance to love over friendship… we like someone, we fall in love, we come into some relationship and we end up messing up with friends. We don’t spend more time with friends now which usually we use to, but they never complain. We do anything and everything for our love relation seldom we do so much for friendship even though one day mostly people gets dumped by the same person whom we loved so much, for whom we avoided our friends, for whom we lied to our parents, for whom we fought with our siblings and when this cruel reality hits us hard then we realize the importance of these relations in our life and then we feel guilty. We go back to our friends though we can’t look at them directly in their eyes and say “I am sorry!!” Instead of whacking us hard they just give us a much needed hug and whisper into our ears “that’s okay yaar it happens in life this is not the end, check out that hot chick!!” So this is friendship, which has no conditions, no expectations, and no rules.

After our parents and siblings, its only friends who can understand our state better, and sometimes they are the only one who will understand our state, who will support us without giving it a thought the amount of risk involved in certain situations, they don’t give a damn to it, just jump along with us even if it’s a fire.

It all started in 1935, The United States Congress proclaimed the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. Since then, celebration of National Friendship Day became an annual event. The noble idea of honoring the beautiful relationship of friendship caught on with the people and soon Friendship Day became a hugely popular festival. Following the popularity and success of Friendship Day in US, several other countries adopted the tradition of dedicating a day to friends. Today, Friendship Day is enthusiastically celebrated by several countries across the world including India. 

In 1997, the United Nations named Winnie - the Pooh as the world's Ambassador of Friendship.

Even the holy Bible states the importance of friendship. The Bible, the primary text of the western civilization, reflects upon friendship as the bond that forms the foundation to human faith, trust and companionship. Following verses from the bible aptly portray the importance of friends: 

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” 

Matthew 7:7

“Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

John 15:13-15

In the famous Hindu epic ‘Mahabharata’, Lord Krishna demonstrates the many colors of friendship - affection, romance, brotherhood, protection, guidance, intimacy and even teasing. Friendship is all about these and much more.

Friendship is the most holy relationship in this world, the purest one. They are the only one who gives us those golden memories that we can cherish lifelong. Some stay for life some for an instance but we always remember them all. We always play all those moments in the theatre of our mind and feel content about it. Sometimes we just laugh out loud even though when we are sitting alone when we start the flashback in the back of our head. Sometimes we do commit some mistakes and loose them forever, but they are always in our heart, even though we show everyone that we hate them to the core indirectly we still love them by remembering them all the time…

the one person i can tell my soul too 
Who can relate to me like no other 
Who I can laugh with to no extents, 
Who I can cry too when times are tough, 
Who can help me with the problems of my life. 
Never have you turned your back on me 
Or told me I wasn't good enough 
Or let me down 
I don't think you know what that means to me 
You have went through so much pain and you still have time 
For me. 
And I love you for listening even when inside YOU are dying 
And I look up to you because you are strong, 
and caring and beautiful. 
Even though you don't think you are. 
And I hope you know that I am always here 
To listen to you laugh and cry and help 
In all the ways that i can 
And I will try to be at least half the friend you are 
To me. 
I hope you know I would not be the person I am today, without you...

Wishing everyone happy friendship day!!!

Long live friendship…!!!