A Best Friend

I often ponder upon the question, that who is my 'best friend'? I even ask myself is the concept of a best friend even valid? It is. We always need this person in our life on who we can always depend upon, whether it be for fun, help, care or love, that person will be there for us.

A best friend is a person you can count on for anything. If you just desperately want to go out and have no money, you can call up this person and ask them to go out and you can tell them you have less money, then they most certainly will abuse the shit out of you, yet you will be laughing. If you don’t drive and want to go meet your girlfriend/boyfriend you can call this person and 90% of the times they will take you there. Speaking out of personal experience, if you can’t pay your bill at your own birthday, trust me they will go to the extreme to help you out. If you hear a creak outside your door at 11 in the night, you can most certainly be sure to keep this person up on the phone till 6 in the morning just because you are scared. This friend will not be afraid to tell you what they think of you, but they put it across in such a way that you don’t even mind it, you laugh it off. A best friend is a person in front of whom you have no qualms in being yourself, you can do a 'tapori' dance on 'apdi pode' or you can be highly sophisticated and just listen to The Doors or Queen. They may teach you how to drive, they may most certainly make sure they teach you how not to. You can abuse them all day long and still laugh it off, but if anyone else does he isn’t seeing daylight again! You may fight with them and may never want to talk to them again, but you also know you are fooling yourself. If you need them, or even if you don’t and just want to talk to them they will make sure they leave everything and anything they are doing just to text you, they will cancel with anyone else just to be with you. They will be the ones who will take your case the worst, but they will be the ones that make sure that no one else does. Most of their major plans will most definitely include you.

Another misconception that exists is there being only one best friend, that is utter rubbish but then also is the concept of you having 4-5 best friends. I have more than one, but almost all of us need at least one such person, who is literally a call away. Even if the chaos of life takes you thousands of miles and a dozen time zones away, you can still call them and talk to them about your worries, and they’ll understand as if they were right beside you all throughout. Remember you never have catching up to do with your best friend(s).

Never mistrust this person for it is more shameful to distrust a friend than to be deceived by them. Remember if you fight that everyone deserves a second chance. Don’t hold grudges too long, if you haven’t spoken in a while, make the call, its never ever too late.

Always remember a true friend is one who walks in, when the world walks out, and that this person can die for you, literally.