Hey reader,
It’s 6th of April, and with the freshness in the mind and petrichor in the weather, I am back with another interesting topic. I think many of you will be new, like me, to this petrichor. But we all know it. It is the earthy scent produced when the rain falls on dry soil after a long period of warm weather. So how does it seem and feel like. Pleasant and refreshing! There is something similar to this we have in our life which gives us the same feeling. The Friendships.
“In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the due of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Khalil Gibran
A friendship is not only a relation, it’s an emotion, a feeling, that binds us together from inside and to the outside. It is something that gives us support and the one that celebrates the joy with us. Now, you might be thinking that I am talking about friends and things, well a yes and a no. The difference is that I will be talking about friends, but I won’t be restricting it to the humans. Yes, not only upto humans.
My belief is simple, anything that gives me comfort is a friend to me. Be it humans, be it weather, be it animal, be it passion. So here, I will be talking about two things: Friendship with Passion and Friendship with Humans.
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you are passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.”
Yo-Yo Ma
Let me share a story, there was a school teacher who had a great job but she has the passion for cooking. Then there came the news of reality show competition for cooking. She decided to take part in it but her principal refused to give any leaves for it. Guess what she did? She resigned! She took the risk, took part in competition, won the competition and today she is known as Masterchef Pankaj! Yeah, go google it.
We do have some passions in us. Some know them and some don’t as I always say. Recently, I had a very busy schedule. But finally I got sometime to get back to my passion that has always been music. It’s been two days, and the only thing I know is, there is no better thing in this world then spending time with your passion. If it is dancing, dance till you finally catch up your lost rhythm, if it is literature, resume with those long pending journals, if it is painting, bring the life to those incomplete sketches. Just go, and spend the time with your passion.
Passion is not the hobby, it’s a friend. More you spend time with it, more you know it better, more it serves you better, more it refreshes you, more it pleases you and most importantly, more you will love yourself. And all this can only happen, if your passion is your friend. With time, I will be writing more about this, but till then you have to complete a task! Yea, it’s been many days of you being a lousy creature. Task is, you have to choose one person. You have to find out their passion according to what you think and have to ask them to do the same. Next is, you have to spend 30 mins on that passion you get to know from them everyday for 3 days and write the experience everyday.
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
Henry David Thoreau
In our lifetime, we meet so many people. But if I ask you to go out with someone for a drive in that cool breeze with petrichor, you will be getting some images in your mind. These are the people who are special. These are the ones, world call as friends. These people are the ones who are different. No there are also same humans, but they are special because you share a part of you with them. You live a life in those tiny moments you share with them.
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
Charles Darwin
I believe, life is like balancing on a tripod. The three legs are, Family, Love of your life and Friends. You are screwed if you miss any of them. I see many people complaining about that they didn’t got a true friend. My friend, check your tripod balance! You might be loading one leg more than others.
A friend, how will you define it? Let’s decode it!
A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not to feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
I have mistaken a good friendship with love many times. But now, thanks to you, amazing person, I have finally got what it means about love for friendships! It is love for being what I am, love for becoming what i want to become, love for being with someone who will always make fun of you but won’t let anyone to make fun of you, love for being with someone who will care for you but will never say, love for having partner in crime and this list will be very long but one thing, love for having someone who will believe in you more than you believe on yourself!
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
So you think the post is over? Well we still have a task. (Yes another) I asked you to choose one person to ask about your passion. This person is not any random person. This task is to find that person. Want help? Just look at the true friend definition and find the closest match. Yeah, there you go!
“An iron sharpens an iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”
King Solomon
VARTAMANAH 
What’s your thought about it?