We know we are blessed when we have good friends. It is
true for all whether you are young, old, rich, poor, man or woman. Good friends
are your strength, your support system, your moral compass, your therapist and
the keeper of your secrets.
All my life I have been blessed. Right from my school
days till today – I am 40+ now – I have had the fortune of being friends with
some really amazing and unique women. I know all women are unique, but hey,
this is my blog so my friends uniquer (it's a word in my dictionary). I am still in touch with my
school friends and with the advent of social media (for me especially what’s
app) it is so easy to be in touch with each other. I mean really in touch not
just the ‘forwards’ kind. We talk, discuss, argue and share. It is wonderful to
see the kind of women they have all blossomed into. Recently one of them moved
to Mumbai when her husband was transferred here. Even though we had not met for
years, it did not seem like that. We picked up from right where we had left off.
Such is the power of time tested friendship. No awkwardness, no self-consciousness, no
having to watch my mouth. I knew her, after all I had been friends with her for
more than half of my life. Of course if your friend has changed a lot then the same things
may not apply, but you will know that in the first five minutes of meeting her.
In which case it will be like meeting a new person and doing the
dance-of-making-a-new-friend again. Almost an year after that we got an opportunity
to meet with two of our other friends – we were a group of 5 – in Pune. We had
a ball of a time, but also missed the one who could not make it. Our kids also
of similar ages enjoyed themselves. It felt like we had never been apart even
though we were meeting after college. And even though we have not met since
(almost three years) the memories of that weekend are still fresh and the bond
still strong.
Fast forward to the present day and now I am one of the
quartet. The four of us are, well a story for another day or another blog. No matter
whether its yester-friends or present-friends, they are the treasures we
acquire in our lives and they make it rich by simply being in it.
It’s been my privilege to call these women my friends
and I know (coz they have told me so) that they feel the same. Hope each and
every one of you out there has at least one such friend in your life.
