Best friends are your confidantes and pillars of support
There are friends and then there are best friends. The former are your social quotient. The latter are your confidantes, your walls of strength, and your dear diary regulars. Reaching the highest possible levels of insanity together followed by a hearty laugh and a lifetime of memories!
It’s hardly surprising then, that its usually best friends who see you in your most wicked element. Just as one chooses a suitable career, one must choose the right kind of friends and respect them. It is while we are in school and college that we make friends for life. In fact, these friendships are in a sense the best of both worlds. We make many friends as we are in our learning phase of life, but only few take part and prove to be pillars of our life when we are down. They should be more than just co-passengers in our journey.
Even as, education enlightens you with academic knowledge and qualifications to break into a successful career, friends broaden our perspective and offer life-long encouragement. They can also prove to be a minefield of knowledge that will help us for the rest of our lives.
In fact, I caught up with two best buddies in my life without them I might have lost myself somewhere! They share the most half of me. This friendship began during my college days apparently not very much like friends at the beginning but as some kind of strange relation which everyone feels when joining college first time. Usually when you are a new joiner, you make lot of friends who may be accompanying you to hang around, bunk classes and sit in the coffee shop or canteen. But only few would be with you to look after you with care, when you are depressed or down and they are the “best friends”. They would just help you out in any situation and see that you are feeling good. I am lucky to get two such dazzling and sparkling diamonds in my life. Someone has said it true that friendships need time to grow strong. And it’s been four years since we are friends from college days. I hope it continues till life ends.
Recently, a new study has revealed that Friendships that begin during college days last for a lifetime. Purdue University communication expert Glenn Sparks said that “Maintaining quality long-term friendships is difficult today because people move frequently and there are many technological and media distractions,” says Glenn Sparks, a professor of communication who studied the 19-year friendships of a group of 1983 college graduates.
“The geographic and personal distance between people continues to grow, and there are some harmful effects for those who lack quality relationships. Friends are essential because they provide emotional stability in a person’s life. Making friends is like managing a bank account. You must make investments, and it is never too early to start,’ Sparks added.
I have moved distances and to places around for about 7 to 8 times in last fifteen years and I couldn’t maintain any friendships that began in school. In today’s world with the huge network of computers around, one can easily be in touch at least. But what we would know in school when we were just kids…
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