My Best Friend Part II

Hi all,

I am back. I am starting it from the very point I had left it in my last post. I was introduced to this cute little black teddy by my poet friend. The liking was instant as there was an uncanny and unsaid bonding between us immediately. I fondly call her Teddy because she is round and dark complexioned but her lap is a like a soft cushion sofa if you ever decide to have an undisturbed sleep.

Our friendship was an instant hit due to several reasons, some of which are as follows:

1.) We were in the same school though not in the same class, but our classrooms were in the same floor. So we got to see each other very often.

2.) We lived in the same neighborhood just about 5 mins apart from each other.

3.) We had the same common friends.

Last but not the least and the most important of all,

4.) Both of us had no siblings. Both of us were only children and so lonely.

There are a couple of things that I would like to share with my readers today. A couple of my readers may be only children who may agree or disagree with my point. But as I told in the beginning, this is my idea and it may differ from others' viewpoints.

I am an only child of my parents. I was brought up very liberally by my parents. They are very friendly and loving parents who never made me feel alone, but still there was always an emptiness within me which never got filled up. Though I grew up with my cousins for a long time, they also could never fill up that gap inside me. There is a lot of concocted ideas that people generally have about only children. I am not going to clear all that now but I will definitely pen down my ideas on that subject later.

So, picking up the story from where I left, there were a lot of similarities between us. She also felt a similar emptiness within her. But do u know what attracted us to each other? Our contrasting outlook towards LIFE. Our approach towards Life were radically different. I had a very positive and constructive approach towards Life. I have always tried to be practical in all the situations and tackle them with courage. That is a lesson I learnt early on from my parents.

But her approach was entirely different. She had draped a huge canopy of loneliness around her which would wrap you into its furls if you were not cautious enough. That is what happened with me. In the beginning, there was this emotional wall separating both of us but slowly with a lot of patience and large doses of love, the wall began to collapse and I got a glimpse of the real person hiding within her. I saw a very lonely person longing for companionship and love. Nobody could understand that feeling better because I was experiencing the same.

Do u think only children are moody? If you think yes, I should tell you - You are mistaken. They are not moody. They are too lonely and sometimes unable to express the deepest of their feelings because they are too scared to share their innermost feelings with everyone.

It was at this juncture that we both met and became close to each other. So close that people would tease that we are inseparable. As I got to know her better, I also realized that deep down she was very insecure and lost and desperately in need of an anchor in Life. Could I become her anchor and the best friend she was looking for? To know more, keep reading.......

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My First Best Friend

Hi all,

I am new to this blogging. So please bear with me if you find my blogs too boring or uninteresting. I have just started my journey back in time, so it is going to be a bit difficult to put all my thoughts together but as wise men say we have to attempt before we call it quits.

As I had told in the beginning, Life is the most interesting and adventurous journey for any individual. Though all of us are very much present in this world, we do not live Life, but actually move through it as if it were a conveyer belt. Life is all about not only enjoying the shortest moments of joy and happiness but also the sad and melancholy ones also with equal fervour and enthusiasm.

I am very sure that all the readers of this blog have their own lists of Firsts. Their first cycle, first school, first close friend, and last but not the least their first love. Today, I have decided to tell you all about my first best friend who is not just the best but the truest one as well.

I dedicate this post to that special person in my life who gave me the both the happiest and the saddest moments of my life and taught me the most important lesson in Life - to be able to accept both happiness and sorrow with a neutral attitude.

I would like to thank her for being there to support me whenever I felt lost and down, for accepting me the way I am because I know I have made her life very miserable at times by being very difficult to manage. She loves me and adores me inspite of my shortcomings and deficiencies which is the USP of our friendship.

It was a hot afternoon and the Annual Sports Day of our school. I had finished all my events and had managed to win in two of them as well. I was feeling exhausted and drained and my friend was trying to revive me by telling some nice poems in Hindi and Urdu. It was at this iconic moment of my life - that this girl walked in who was going to become the most special friend I ever had in my Life.

She came to meet my poet friend and that is when we got introduced to each other for the first time. I still remember those black sparkling eyes smiling at me and hailing me to come hither.

(To be contd........)