Friends

There used to be a time when you used to proclaim that you had a lot of friends. The word ''loneliness'' never used to exist in your dictionary. Life used to be rosy and great. People used to assume that you were an easy going guy who only knew how to cheer up people. Till a state of emptiness is created. All of a sudden, there’s a vacuum in your life. No idea when it came and how it came.

It’s that emptiness which you feel when friends separate. These were the same friends with whom you enjoyed every moment of your life.Recollecting those things used to tell me that how inseparable we were. We would promise, "We'll be friends forever. Nothing can come between us!"This phase invariably occurs with each one of us. Remember how you'd troop to each other's homes and keep calling each other. Now, each of you has gone your own ways, pursuing paths that possibly led to opposite directions. You have an urge to connect, to touch base. But you dither and hesitate. Instead of picking up that phone, writing that note, sending that e-mail, you only think about it, and do nothing. You wonder how your pal would react, whether he/she would reciprocate your gesture, or even remember you.The more we worry about what people will think of us, the less spontaneous and natural we are in our relationships. This leads to extremely controlled and restrained interactions. Your own faulty premise sets you up for the very thing you don't want: formality and detachment.So buck up and take that first step in rekindling the same old friendship. It may also be that the other person may have been waiting for you to take the first step.

This is inspired from an article which was published in BUZZ