Anyway I was thinking about my friends without whom this blog wouldn't have been possible. For some strange reason I have a lot of friends who are into media related fields either as a profession or as a hobby but I've also got friends from other fields. The best part of this is that I never made a conscious effort to try to be friends with these people other than my normal conversation( unfortunately, I can go on & on once I get started) . They are friends from all walks of life, from various races & religions, whom I met from various places such as university, classes, school at work& even at Facebook. I've got great friends who are artists, graphic designers, writers, singers, advertisers & even movie directors and air hostesses. They're all awesome friends & good people. Some of them are girls like me but I have an equal number of (okay, maybe more) friends who are guys. I guess you must be wondering where I'm going with this. Let me explain.
A lot of people have this opinion that guys and girls can never be close friends and tend to either fight or fall in love. There are people who also believe that friends are just a hobby, a way of passing time. I disagree and say that its a complete falsity on both counts. Whether you are friends or not depends on your attitude. It depends on trust, loyalty, honesty and brotherly/sisterly love , all of which once they come come together says that you care. Once you betray any one of these characteristics your friendship falls apart (or literally rips apart, whichever is appropriate). Most of us think that having some of these characteristics is enough to get you through. But I'll tell you through bitter experience that its not enough. Your veneer of goodness is bound to crack one day and from then on your friends grow apart. Oh! I've had friends like that and what I've seen later was not nice. You might think you have a lot of friends, but most of them are casual friends. How many of them are real friends???How many care and would help you when you are in serious trouble? I'm pretty sure that it's just a handful. For example I have a lot of acquaintances. People I meet on the road, at work, at school, everywhere, most of them would call me a friend. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a bad person. In fact even at my most casual I'm usually more honest & trustworthy than a lot of people are. The truth is that I'm not sure I'm would consider a person an actual 'friend' until I get to test their friendship. That's why I consider very few people real friends. But those people that I call friends are people who care (that doesn't stop them from bugging me like hell, if possible they increase their bugging and neither does it stop me from retaliating with the most sarcastic comments).
Anyway as I say, friendship is eternal with good friends who care. It has nothing to do with where you are from or what race or religion you are from. All that matters in the end is whether you care...
