Colors of life

My dear friend, It’s been a really really long time since we became friends first. Our friendship probably is almost as old as we are today. We know each other since kindergarten and today our kids have also passed kindergarten. It’s amazing how our friendship grew with us and is still as strong as ever. Today, when I look back at those days, it feels like a different era.  In those times, friendship was considered to be a beautiful relationship which bonded two strangers into a lifelong bond and an unforgettable journey of togetherness and companionship. And ours, indeed, was a friendship to remember. We behaved and did everything as sisters would do, only that we were born from different mothers. The journey from school to being college graduates only got exciting and thrilling each passing year and it was just because I had you as my companion. For every little thing. We were like partners in crime. And even otherwise. I mean we couldn’t think of doing anything without ...

What would life be without friends? Unimaginable… right? Friends are those relatives that you choose yourself and nurture the relationship into a beautiful lifelong bond. You find many friends across the journey of life at various stages. Some of them you tend to forget and the bond seems to loosen along with time but there are some who leave footprints in your heart and mind eternally! Those are your true friends and what we often refer to as ‘ Friends Forever ’. Along the journey of life we come across only a few friends who you consider as your friends forever and therefore it’s heartbreaking when its time to say ‘goodbye’ to those very friends with whom you have spent and shared some of the best times of your life! It’s extremely hard to find such friends who stand by you through thick and thin, who share your happiness with as much joy and shed tears of sorrow when you are in pain, who selflessly give without any expectations in return, who know the good and bad in you and yet ...