A Good Friend
Making friends is our natural instinct. How we do it may be different, but this need to have friends, to have someone you can rely on, is natural. Being without a friend leaves you with the risk of living in your own boring company.
But how we define a good friend?
Let’s learn through a story.
In a crazy winter season, a tiny little bird enjoyed the fall time a little bit too much and didn’t start its journey south early enough. It started a little late in the winter and tried to fly out, and it just froze and fell down. A cow was passing that way and it dropped a heap of dung. The dung fell right over the bird and covered it. The warmth of the dung slowly defrosted the bird and he started feeling good and started tweeting happily.
A cat was going that way. It heard the tweet, looked around, and saw that the tweet was coming from inside the dung. He pushed the dung off, pulled the bird out of the dung and ate him up.
Morale of the story:
- Whoever drops shit on you need not necessarily be your enemy.
- Whoever pulls you out of shit need not necessarily be your friend.
Don’t take me wrong. I am not saying that as a friend, it’s your job to drop shit. You don’t have to bombard them with what is wrong with them; that is not the point. Having said that, you must have the courage to be unpopular. In our effort of being nice, kind, good and popular, we bury piles of unpleasantness within ourself. And as nature is, if you bury unpleasantness into the soil, you will reap fruits of unpleasantness.
A true friend is like a mirror, not an Instagram Filter.
A worthy friendship is unconditional. It’s unconditional of time, distance, worth, give and take. It unconditional. Because when it’s conditional, it’s not friendship, it’s a social connection.
A friend is not a guru. A friend is not a perfect human being. To be honest, a friend is another confused freak like you, and that’s ok. In fact, that’s beautiful. This makes the friend more approachable and relatable.
A good friend is a blessing indeed.
