Language is a beautiful revelation that man has experienced in his existence and still I find it woefully inadequate to express something as ------- as "friendship" (no adjective can be found to compare it with). It's said that a human being can attain unprecedented heights or fall to unimaginable depths when he is emotionally charged. Friendship is one such emotion that belongs to the former. In it there are no negatives just positives. No pressure, just relaxation. No jealousy, just joy. No betrayal just unflinching support. No feeling of being ignored but always making us feel that we are important.
It's said that one can tell about a person by the kind of friends he or she has. It emphasizes the influence of friends on an individual. The uniqueness of it is it's a dynamic relationship in which a person influences as well as gets influenced simultaneously and continuously. Such is its presence that there can be someone without a family, without a spouse, without anything but not without a friend. People say that love transcends everything but it is through friendship that it finds perfect expression. Without friendship it is impossible for people to grasp love. That's why we hear that parents should treat their children like friends beyond a certain age. Even in a marriage though husband and wife are the formal names given for the sake of recognition in a society, actually during the ceremony the couple owe to each other to remain a friend for the rest of their lives. Friendship is something which is self sustaining. It needs nothing special for its existence, but everything else needs friendship for their survival.
Considering the tectonic drifts in today's sociological setup where families becoming nuclear and relatives distant and relationships irrelevant, friends have come to fill up that void. In earlier days one's primary source of support had been family and relatives but nowadays it's friends and unlike relatives friends come with no strings attached.
In the end if one's present state is a sum total of all his successes and failures, pluses and minuses, good and bad then in my opinion one's personality is the sum total of his family and his friends. In my opinion there is not such thing as love failure. Only lack of friendliness. So let's try to maintain good friendship with our near and dear ones, love automatically follows!!!!
