Valued Relationship -- Friendship

"Friendship - One of the most beautiful relationships existing! "

You get a choice to choose friends and each friend in most cases is a GEM to be treasured. At different stages in our lives we meet and make different friends and sometimes these friendships last a lifetime, creating a bond never to be broken... A good friendship is food for the soul..Friendship is love that keeps us secure in its warmth and this is priceless as it really does make you who you are. Friends are the family we choose and in that sense are really precious.
They say changes are only constant -- So do friendships change with time or do some friendships last through thick and thin?

Sometimes friends do drift apart and there could be many reasons : distance, issues, time, job, romantic lives...and some more...Some friendships do not have a special bond to break or weaken,when all the above cited changes happen in life.
As I see it, there are some people we are linked with in an inexplicable way.. An invisible bond that you know is there..With these people one does not need to correspond on a daily basis for the feelings to last. You meet them after years too..The feelings are there..Intact, no discomfort, no awkwardness. Just pure love. That is what I would say is pure n true friendship. A precious relationship to be treasured. It is something that is earned and cannot be treated frivolously and taken for granted. It needs to be nurtured and cared...
I have some wonderful friends I treasure.. Ones whom I laugh with, Ones I cry with, Ones who chase away my blues and with whom I have such strong emotional bonding that I know come what may they are and will be a part of my life!! I just cannot sometimes put my finger on what keeps this invisible bond in place but I always count myself lucky to be blessed with such friends...School to college and Work..When I see them I realise how lucky I am to be blessed with so many wonderful people(Angels of my life!).
The joy of a true friendship is one that lasts forever..So make friends with care and never let go of the ones you cherish.. "True friends are the most precious gems one finds in life!!"

Friendship and its side effects !

Another of those wingling thoughts in my head which am writing about :) There are some people who come into our lives and are meant to stay only for a brief period...Ofcourse the fact remains that they dont go away..They dont dissapear...They are very much in your life..But the friendship u shared once upon a time just withers away..Fades off...Gets neglected!

Being a frequent "chirkutter" (Lotsa Orkutting! ;)) on the mention of a particular someone who for some strange reason is now limited only to my orkut profile and otherwise would probably not even be knowing if i was dead or alive!! But then : "All people in your friend list cant be called your forever friends"

Now this put me into thought : "How many 'friends' do i actually have?"

Lemme rephrase that..."Are all the people I know and who were friends with me once upon a time still my 'friends'??" "Do we still care as much?" "Do we still bother to keep abreast of whats happening with each other?(In hindsight, do we really want that?)" or "Has the distance, time and work constraints come in between??" Well the answer was pretty obvious...

The reason for this happening could be...I did not manage to keep in touch...They got too busy..I got held up..They felt ignored...To cut the story short...Nobody is to blame...We all got screwed up by life and somewhere all of us lost a little bit of each other...The bit that really cared or seemed to!! :(

But then again its not all that black...We still know we are there for each other...and I've still got some tried (their patience) and tested(their friendship) 'u-can-call-me-at-any-time-of-the-day-or-night' buddies and 'il'l-always-be-there-for-you-all-u-need-to-do-is-just-holler' pals..:) So all is not lost and hopefully never will be -- For them and For me..Touchwood! :)