Essence of Friendship

In the modern days when the large part of our life is being consumed by our work and we barely have the privilege to spend time doing things that would make us truly happy, having a true friend can really be a life-changing factor for us.  Friendship is certainly a term that brings happiness anytime we evoke our childhood memories. It is in our schooldays when we realize the meaning of friendship for the first time and as life goes on we eventually grasp the actual essence of friendship. Most importantly, having spent a tiring day at office or business place, when we return home, we need to drain out our stress to make us feel rejuvenated for the next day; In that case spending few hours with friends while gossiping about life and other important aspects certainly brings back charm and energy in us.

In life we often come across situations that we can neither share it with family members nor anyone else, but having a friend endowed one with the pleasure to discuss each and everything with him/her. In the contemporary world where everything seems to be so emotionless and goal-driven that we are gradually losing our humanity. It is only a true friendship that regardless of circumstances offers pure humanity for one another. The priceless memories of our school days as an infant teaches us a lot about life and the value of friendship. The beautiful of our school life, when during the tiffin break we used to share tiffin and play with friends, still make me feel nostalgia when I recall those sweet memories. Those vivid memories of our school life that we spent with our best buddies often peeps into our old gallery of mind and rewind us to those bygone days that we shall cherish forever. Our endless memories of friendship, especially of those days, when we fell in love for the first time and quite helplessly revealed our mind to our best mates for feasible solution, still enshrined explicitly in our mind. The boundless love and compassion of friends we miss very much as life takes us forward. As we grow old and lack the compassion of true friendship with time we constantly look for a true friend, yet it seems impossible to have friends like childhood, who would regardless the situation stand by us and protect us from all the visible troubles.

It is said that lucky is the one who has a true friend, because a true friend can change our life completely and steer us to the right direction, whereas absence of the same seldom puts us on a lot difficulties. A good companion would always guide us to walk on right path, rectify us if we make mistakes, above all a true friend can be a guardian who would always hold our hand firmly irrespective of any situation. With time and age when our world gradually shrinks down to a limited boundary the absence of a pure friend make us feel helpless and vulnerable. We constantly make the effort to find a companion, just like we had in our school days, who would always stand by us and protect us for all the possible hazards but the cruelty of practical life seemingly make it impossible to find a friend like that anymore.  

It is a common sight that elderly people at their final stage of life strive to get along with new friends of their age and try to spend their rest life with happiness and joy while laughing and gossiping with friends, which is just a reminiscent of their school days. With age we become mature and learn to value things that ultimately matters in life, and friendship is one such precious aspects of life that we all value. We often hear about instances that people committed suicide out of their frustration. It is recommended that the presence of a good friend in our life, with whom we can share our grievances and sorrows, can surely lessen the possibilities for us to feel so suffocated that eventually would force us to committee acts like suicide. It is mainly our inability to share our trouble or frustration that consumed us in our daily life to that extent that we feel breathless and lonely. The presence of a good friend in our life can certainly make things easier for us to deal with. A friend whom we can look up to as our idol and somebody with whom we can share the problem of our life can really turn things in our favor, whereas the absence of such friend can put us in many difficulties in our way.