Remembering the Best of a Lot
During the course of our entire life, we're bound to make friends with a lot of people, and there will be so many of them who'll be extremely good to us. But one thing you will understand while growing up is that not all of your friends will understand you. Even if you feel all obstinate that they should, you'll gradually find out that they really won't.
But during the same course of life, you'll make a friend who really, completely gets you regardless of asking and not knowing where life will take you both after forming your friendship. And years later if you're apart from each other, you'll remember this friend for how well they've got your essence and how well they've seen your core the way it is and understand why it is the way it is.
Throughout the twenty-six years of my existence, I've made and lost friendships that I formed even from the time I was almost ten. But, the one thing I understood along the way is that it is not just time that makes you feel that a friendship is whole. It's in the feeling you get when you think of them about how effortlessly they saw you and how that made you feel.
Years after, when you hear that they talked tenderly about you from someone who reached out after ages, you'll remember this friend through a language you both formed by feeling seen by each other. You'll remember the genuine love you both offered, and a few photographic memories of the times you felt genuinely rich in love, despite all the ugliness that caught on your ways later. And he/she will be the one you'd probably mind spending a minute thinking about on a busy day. You won't be surprised to find out that he/she still has a room in your heart while you refuse it to so many, even after years- a friend whose skin and smell you still remember very well.
Though I've outgrown many friends over time, I've carried genuine tenderness only for one. Over time, I might lose friends again, but I'm sure I'll miss only one more among all the friends I've gained so far, but for a different reason, making it a count of two.
That's the thing about connections.
You find one or two, and those will be the best of the lot you'll remember fondly throughout your life.
