Happy Friendship Day!

Friendship is a beautiful thing. It's easy to meet people and strike a conversation with them, but you only become friends when you let the real "You" show through the veil we all usually put when meeting people for the first time- the kind of veil that displays emotions we don't actually feel or the person that we really are not. 

Once you find someone that shares the same interests and accepts you for "you" that's when friendship starts. How this friendship lasts over years is a challenge because friends drift apart, get busy in their own lives and the only time you hear from them is a one line text. However, if your friend, despite being busy in their own life, keeps in touch with you through a one line message every now and then through a text, then you know you have a true friend who thinks about you. It's not an easy task being caught up in your life and still maintaining a friendship with someone you went to school or college with, so even a text can be a sweet gesture in today's technology dependent world. 

While thinking about all this, my thoughts were directed to the friendships celebrated in books and movies and then I was hit with a realization that most of my stories don't mention my characters having friends. I'm still going through all the stories I've written over the years, in my mind, and I can't find one that showed a deep and meaningful friendship between two characters. 

Yes, they've pretty much all been lone wolves. 

The closest I've come to writing about friendships was "Aadita" where Raina, through her struggles forms a friendship with her roommate in college (Drina) who in turn helps her with a serious family problem. In the end, Raina also becomes friends with an unlikely character, but that's a surprise ;) 

Anyway, I'm just glad I had one story that celebrated friendships in some way, because friends are the most important people in our lives and we must always appreciate them. 

Happy Friendship Day!