We keep making so many friends throughout our lives, we keep doing things together, learning things with them, keep going to them for each and every help, messing up things big time and still we know they will accept us and be there for us...
Some thoughts crossed my mind when i was thinking how the concept of friendship ever came
into being... wikipedia defines FRIENDSHIP as "a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more beings"... this is one topic about which people have written oodles about... something i read in a mail today made me realise that we all need a friend and no matter how friendship started its never gonna end.. :)
jus wanted to share the mail here..
My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body is. Through the years I would take a guess at what I thought was the correct Answer.
When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, 'My ears, Mommy.' She said, 'No. Many people are deaf. But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.'
Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first attempt, I had contemplated the correct answer. So this time I told her, 'Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes.' She looked at me and told me, 'You are learning fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind.'
Stumped again, I continued my quest for knowledge and over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was, 'No. But you are getting smarter every year, my child.' Then one year, my grandfather died. Everybody was hurt. Everybody was crying. Even my father cried. I remember that especially because it was only the second time I saw him cry. My Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our final good-bye to my Grandfather.
She asked me, 'Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?'
I was shocked when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a game between her and me. She saw the confusion on my face and told me, 'This question is very important. It shows that you have really lived in your life. For every body part you gave me in the past, I have told you were wrong and I have given you an example why. But today is the day you need to learn this important lesson.'
She looked down at me as only a mother can. I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, 'My dear, the most important body part is your shoulder.'
I asked, 'Is it because it holds up my head?' She replied, 'No, it is because it can hold the head of a friend or a loved one when they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime in life, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you need it.'
Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a selfish one. It is made for others and not for yourself. It is sympathetic to the pain of others.
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did . But people will NEVER forget how you made them feel.
And this is wat i feel... FRIEND is one person whom i can always go to without thinkin twice, with whom i can speak my own self and don have to really pretend, with whom i feel no ego, with whom yu feel all selflessness...who makes you feel cared for always, who makes you feeel loved, who gives you an ear even when the whole world is not listening to you, who gives you the unselfish shoulder to lean on...to whom you can always say... you are mine.. :)
