FACES OF FRIENDSHIP

Posted by: Leony Moonrose
Courtesy of Lavi Singh

                         

Friends?
In this kind of world we are now,

They are quite scary

They expect me to know who they are

They expect me to greet them
If I don’t, they start hitting me

They make it a guessing game

I have to correctly guess they are my friends

If not, I’ll end up into trouble again.

Friends make a lot of difference. We can see them everywhere wearing different faces. When you’re going about your day, walking down the street, getting on the subway, in shopping malls, or watching football game, we meet our casual or close friends, exchanging nods, hi’s and hello’s, shaking hands with them.

As we mingle, we see their faces.

Some have happy faces, others have blank face

Some have angry scowls, others are sad, worried souls

Some are impatient while others are peaceful and content,

..yet they are our friends in different faces.

We pass by all those faces,

 and we know that behind each face… is a story.

Yes a story.

A story that runs the gambit of all human emotions.

                                                

She was motorbiking home..

No, not in her real home but somewhere she felt at home.

In a corner of no place where she could scream out loud with no voice…

Driving her way

Feeling hurt and angry

A car coming next to her, moving slowly, keeping pace with her.

A guy in the front passenger seat rolling down his window,

claiming as her friend, asking for direction,

Telling him, the guy not seemingly listened

The car stopped.

Braked her bike.

The guy jumped out of the car, grabbed her.

The guy unlocked the trunk, throwing her in.

The trunk lid banged shut.

she screamed.

Darkness.

Who is she? She’s a friend.

Who’s the gangster? He’s also a friend.

Who needs to rescue her? Supposedly a friend.

But what happened was…

she'd been rescued by a stranger

and that stranger has become her friend.

Sometimes, we trust someone so easily. We share our secrets only to find out that the person whom we trust just make us pay back with disrespect and insult and is not quite deserving of our trust and friendship. We blindly believe that the person we consider a friend is true to us and be with us through thick and thin. Late to realize that they are just wearing their masks and play the art of pretending.

It’s not easy nowadays to find a friend. Friendship should be without any profit. Nowadays if you have good status, a lot of people try to walk with you. But if you have nothing besides good heart, they don’t really care at all.

Money talks all over. Most people need friendship for benefits. If they know that you have something, they stay with you, but when hard time comes people always show their back and run away.

Beforehand, I didn’t believe much in real friendship..

or should I say, I didn’t notice because what I’ve seen were bullying and disrespect.

I made friends only for business and social needs until one day I realized that friendship is not a one-way street.

Let us try to see the positive faces of our friends

Sometimes you get mad with friends because they stop you from doing something out of the line. They correct your mistakes instead of tolerating your vices and caprices. Well, it’s not really a bad thing. If you have good friend he should be hard on you sometimes for your own good. If your friend always tell you about you are right just to please you, then you'll never gonna learn nor improve your life and you’ll be deprived from knowing your real worth as a person.

We all need a friend who make us real human not just a show off individual.

We need someone who would correct us and make us think of what is right or wrong.

I remember in old days people trust that much. They let their friends stay their house, they work together, share every single thing. But nowadays, if you bring someone to your house, they always break that trust.  They may call you brother or sister but when they saw family member they always put bad eye on them.

It would be easier to find God (God's words) than to find a trusted person nowadays.

I firmly believe that when you are in a relationship, either family, friend or lover, you gotta have respect for that relationship. Once you call someone a friend, show your genuine self and wear a pure silver heart.

They said true friend is hard to find. If you can have at least one true friend, you are one lucky person.

                                  

     

I am lucky then. I met many friends both in real and in cyber world and few of them I considered priceless. They are not easy to find. I feel so blessed because God gave them to me. I feel so proud because whenever I need them, they’re always there, never show their back no matter what happen and no matter we get mad, at the end we’re together again.

I found a precious gem in the heart of my true friends.

A Friend I can trust with close eyes ..

A Friend who will stand by me 'till the end of time.

Building trust takes ages, yet just a second to break it.

The different faces of friendship have us believe they are so different from us, yet we come to understand that behind those different faces, we all share the same “story”.

Getting back on the story of the abducted lady mentioned above…      

She questioned the people who used to greet her with beautiful smile each time she woke up

She questioned those whom she called friends
Where are they?

She needs answer

She needs light

She needs you..

…Whom she calls-  A FRIEND.

Do you have what you call a genuine friend?

Again If you have, you are one lucky person.