Adjudicated Parallels

Relationships need to be nurtured with kind words and restraining oneself from speaking harsh ones if need be. Only then they take root and a prime value or longevity is established. There need not be negative feelings creeping into such a beautiful rendition of love. As a plant is grown and nurtured while it is still a sapling, the right mix of manure with warmth helps relationships like friendships grow a great deal. It blossoms into one fruitful tree with moments worth remembering and cherishable. Distance and physical absence doesn't matter. One can remain best of friends with everyone if value is offered. This is the same with every love and warmth seeking individual. One should strive to be remembered in blissful terms. Heavenly and spiritual goals are thus too. Pick any one.

 Old memories are good. But if they bring something of a troubled present, these emotions of yore feel rather unpleasant and one feels like less nostalgic whatsoever. This is a prevalent norm- especially in this social media-stricken world. Everybody seems to have a situation like this wherein some old friend has grown into what they don't want to become a party to. This is true. I tried to renew ties with an old friend of mine who was in a rather different phase of life then, owing to a failed aspect. He was a good and funny person to be with. As it turned out to be, we had drifted for too long and I put a brake on the friendship. The reason was that he had fallen into the trap of a bad company of friends. It is always wise to tread cautiously when some old friend makes way into your life. The key to this caution is that there should be no need to give him your complete credentials; most funnily, your house address. Keep playing with some cards close to your chest and then you wil...

When looking around at the vast expanse of opportunities to make friendship, many start with innocuous ones during childhood. After having developed into the adults they are, people start ignoring friendships with strangers. The friendship criterion that was naive and unassuming, blossoms into an investment to some or a shoulder to rely on. Nonetheless, the one I developed is for friends to fit into an all-weather category. There was a person from our extended family who used to be a long distant friend. Slowly, I found that he was aloof but helped our family unit in times of need. But, after a storm broke out between our emotional strongholds, he started to part ways and side with his own folks. This lasted till I built a reputation in the society and he retreated from his questionable and nagging ways. Though his antics became greatly less severe and moved on to extending a warm gesture to me, I ignored. What are friends for if they do not fit a simple criterion like this? The...