Do I remember celebrating or wishing anyone on something called a Friendship Day while growing up?
I don’t! No, I am still a mile away from being ancient. Where did it pop up from? Yup, lets blame it on ‘www’ which sure is behind it. These days, it’s almost a festival and people take offense to it if not observed or; the saccharine sweetness not reciprocated, especially on social media.
So the designated day for forwarding messages to friends new and old just went by. I too jumped into the bandwagon and sent some twenty odd borrowed thoughts and e greets/messages here and there. Some marvellous and some naughty thoughts came back in text! All in all great innings 👍🏻
But sat wondering the whole time as to the friends one keeps : best friend, office friend, childhood friend, college friend, relative’s friend-turned my friend, friend’s relative turned my friend, next door friend, Facebook friend , ‘no, we are just friends’ kinda friend🤭 etc. Its like every friend in my life occupies a certain corner of the circle! Role, position, portfolio- wow! Aren’t we organised, we the homo sapiens?!
Like a wardrobe full of assortment of clothes for various occasions , we humans love to keep friends for various seasons of the heart. One friend per job profile! One to carry all our dark secrets, the other listens to all our woes while the third is for good times (the proverbial fair weather friend, remember!) 😀 Some belong to my ‘now’, while the others are from my ‘then’ – times when cycling around the park,skipping hop scotch blocks and attending birthday parties were all the socializing we knew of. These are the friends who have seen you “fail“. The friends who knew the pristine, unadorned souls of me and you. We lived in our merry little worlds and wrote cheesy quotes in scrap books when we left school; a couple of them recalled below:
Make new friends
but keep the old,
For new is silver and
old is gold.🥇
Drink hot tea,
drink hot coffee ,
burn your lips and
remember me❣️
An aside: Just the other day, a childhood friend and I wondered on how much water has flown under the bridge. Of having lost a precious third member of our infamous trio to the ravages of time. This Friendship Day, there was one ardent wish: May God keep all of us healthy and happy till the end of life… and orchestrate at least one reunion of the trio to assuage our famished souls.
Heartfelt 
Happy friendship day..
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Thank you and same to you 🙏
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How are you?
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Hello, I am doing fine, hope things are good with you too 😊
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Hi. Yup. Same here. Good. 👍
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Btw, do you guys enjoy “Pulao”?
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Of course 😀 the original and all its variations too… a wonderful question from across the Radcliffe 👍
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😂awesome. Biryani?
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Hahahaha 😆👍do you cook the awesome variant ?
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I cook it to my mother’s liking. What about you?
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I cook both the Awadhi as well as the Malabar version, and the family and friends loves it…
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😁then you are a good cook. I like it better when somebody else cooks it for me😆.
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Me too. You must visit India to savour all… including the Hyderbad and Kolkata ones too; both God and international relations permitting😅
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Truth to be told, I can never like anybody else’s cooking except my mother’s.😊
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That concludes it then 😊 no India trip required. Hello ASN( writer, poetess) would like it better if I knew your name …
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Thank you Uruba for this interesting byte of conversation… A keepsake 👍😊
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Same here. 👍
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It was lovely reading this blog on friendship….we breathe we live we lead we lose we try to manage every relationship of our life with utmost perfection which goes in recycle bin……but the kind of impulse we receive in friendship………is everlasting……it keeps on stimulating our neurons to feel and relive the precious moments……saved in our memory box by default.
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Thank you so much dear Pushpanjali for taking time out to read the post and relating to it. Yes, friends add a new dimension to existence… your precious thoughts on friendship are absolutely priceless 😊
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Sushmita your writing reminded me of our school days. During summer vacation when we used to exchange letters … met at each other houses… friendship for us had a different meaning where we loved each others company and reuniting with old friends has just brought spice in my life…..
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Dear Sony, you are one of the priceless gems from childhood and you taking time out to read, like and add your thoughts here gives me immense joy. Yes reuniting with our pigtailed prototypes once again is by far the best gift of social media! Thank you dear friend💖
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Hi buddy dear ❤ A belated happy friendship day, dear ❤ How did I miss this! Loved it all …. especially ‘The wadrobe’ part is just tooo good! hahahah ❤
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Thank you so much for liking the post and showering your love and kind words Maya Chi❤️ sure made me glad 😀
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Beautifully written
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Thank you for dropping in to read the post and liking it…
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I’m really impressed with your writing skills as
well as with the layout on your weblog. Is this a paid theme or did you
customize it yourself? Anyway keep up the nice quality writing, it’s rare to see a nice
blog like this one these days.
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Thank you so much for liking this post.Yes, WordPress allows you to customise the webpage.
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Hello there! This post couldn’t be written any better!
Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept chatting about this.
I will forward this post to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read.
Thank you for sharing!
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