Real Friends

There is a thin line of difference between being known and being recognized—people who want to be recognized don’t want to be known and those who want to be known, hardly care about being recognised.

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I’ve always been an extrovert and I’ve never hesitated to express myself before people, even when I’ve hardly known them. I express too soon and as an immediate consequence of that, I’m judged even sooner. I don’t blame them, though.  I should’ve chosen a better audience. 

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I’m guilty of trying too hard with friendships. I’ve always felt the need to go all out and extra when it came to keeping people. And, every time I’ve done that, I’ve always lost. The problem is, people don’t appreciate effort as much as we think they do.

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I realized with time, that friendships are everything but hard work. They don’t require too much effort, they only require an understanding of minimal efforts. We could go hours, days and even months without seeing them or even talking to them, but we know that we’ll always have them to pick us up every time we fall. We don’t need to have one best friend or two best friends, we can just have a few close friends and they’d be it.

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I’ve always felt like I don’t have as many friends as people normally do. But then, I also don’t deal with as much drama and toxicity as they normally do. 

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The older we grow, the more people we lose. But, there are a handful of other idiots we meet along our way, who find their way back to us no matter how far we push them away and these are the people we call, true friends—they’re real and priceless and we may not like them on more occasions than one, but we’ll always love them.

- Saakshi Agarwal