What is Friendship?? As man is a social animal, he/she needs people around. They talk, fall apart and are forgotten if not kept in touch. This is what I used to think until.......
Today morning I met HEMA. A simple girl, gifted with long brownish hair and a cute smile. Her sad, wet eyes penetrated deep into me to find a trustworthy friend.She wanted someone to talk her heart to. Fair and tall she, with her perfect walk came towards me. I was sitting in college corridor, with almost no lights on, near the window. She is a good friend of mine since I met her at a "GARBA NIGHT", nearly 2 years back. (here after she would be known as HEMA) But we never spent so much time together.
We exchanged the greetings and started to talk about the usual stuff in our respective lives.Slowly we started to know each other well and found ourselves just same as the other. she is also Gujarati. She likes music, dancing, painting, creative stuff, singing and even karate. We were same also in current and past personal life situations!!! Like me, She used to be center of attraction in junior college where everyone wanted to be with her, cared for her and silently considered her above them. But now its all perfectly antonymous. Again like me, no one in the class is a good friend of her, no one notices her, she is disintegrated from the group. CR Politics in her class ruined every effort of her for gelling up with the classmates. And now she herself has started keeping distance from others. We discussed if we could again be the person we were in past but she always remained on the denying side for it.
She also maintained a diary somewhere in the past and now also wants to write a blog! Correct, again similar to me. She accepted my dream of being a writer for a good fiction novel. she loves fiction. She actually dreams the situations. May be that makes her feel close to her mom. In that two hours that I talked to her, I could feel the intensity of her love for her mom. I promise here that I'll dedicate my first book to her mom. (may be I'll translate The Alchemist into Gujarati.) Well, she has already written a story, But I would rather keep it a secret as it is very close to her and may not like publishing it.
I am happy that she has found out someone whom she wanted as life partner. she said that he loves her, but she doesn't know that she is indeed sweet and lovable!!!
She has very matured approach towards life. Sometimes I feel I am still in search of something but may be she has found it. She might be apparently like me but she has had more harsh experiences in life. I personally would not be able to stand them. Still a hopeful thing is that she hasn't recoiled herself completely.
She could talk to me very freely even though we were meeting after may be 5 months. So I am forced to conclude that .......
Friendship does not live in the frequency of meetings, it thrives in heart - slowly and steadily.
