Friends!

Friends form an integral part of every one's life. Whatever be the phase of our lives, they are always there with us, whether good or bad. There has been numerous suggestions from parents and others well-wishers on how to choose your friends but is it really possible to find a picture-perfect friend, someone who is brilliant in studies, who will never ask anything from you but only give, who does not have any so-called bad habits, who's views matches my parents', who is actually our friend?? I don't think so. Even if we do. Will we enjoy company of any such friend? I don't believe that either. I did my schooling from Don Bosco Academy, Patna.. a very reputed school there. I had the opportunity of meeting all kinds of students there. Some were, without doubt, brilliant in studies and our teachers were always all praise for them. Most, like me, had been average students, whom most of the teachers viewed indifferently. There were of course some who had not a speck of interest in studies. But this attribute of theirs never guided me to choose friends. I'd friends who were brilliant, average or uninterested(not dull) in studies. Never have I realised why someone who is so good in academics can be good as friend. In fact I've found some of the best buddies among the uninterested types. They are much more emotional about their friends. They have been the ones who stood by me during trouble. And I know some of the more brilliant ones who were adept at whisking money from their dad's pockets. So this 'good in studies' factor proves almost void for me. The nature of a person can never be guided by his intelligence. What really matters is how you blend with that person. This does not necessarily means that our views match. It means that we understand each other. It means that we believe in each other. It means that we trust each other. We cant expect our friend to be with us every time in good and bad times, thanks to the rapid pace of life we are leading. All we can expect from our friend is that we can share our thoughts, whatever it be, with them freely without worrying! Believe it or not, it helps a lot!