Last week I was waiting
outside a shopping mall for one of my friends and I happen to see a beautiful
poster of a little girl and a guy holding hands. This was a poster for
Friendship Day which happens to fall on coming Sunday. This made me think about
all the wonderful guy friends I have had in my life and whom I have so
persistently taken for granted. Though unintentional I always tend to talk a
lot to my girlfriends either by constantly calling them, texting or even mentioning
them in my FB status or blogs. So this Friendship Day I thought I would like to
talk about the wonderful guys who have been super duper friends and pay them
the due credit.
I feel guys make great friends because they don’t whine much and hardly get emotional. On the other hand I get to whine a lot to them and they are forced to put up with my irrational and highly emotional outbursts and then calm me down with their open minded advices. They don’t complain that I don’t call them up frequently or forgot to wish them on their birthdays. Be it listening to me for 14 hours a day about how a certain jerk broke my heart or sending me a cute soft toy panda because I had a rough day or helping me deliver a midnight birthday cake at a friend’s place or picking me up from a client site when I’m stuck up or helping me find the route back when I’m lost or sending me an instant email for every occasion when I do something or calling me up all the way from Detroit just to tell me to be the same or just being there for me when I am an emotional wreck or telling me to chuck my job if I’m uncomfortable : you guys really make me feel cared for. Despite rigorous hours of studies at the top B school in the country, I wonder how he manages to wake me up from sleep every night to ensure that I am sane and not driven myself crazy. I wonder how they manage to be patient enough to listen to me when I accuse their fellow men as jerks and mean fellows. I wonder how they put up with me when I force them to try out orange tee shirts or help me choose a hair style or suggest weird names for their newly born niece and nephews. You guys are really guardian angels when you tell me to stand up for myself and not to let adversity blow me down.
They say that behind every
successful man there is a woman. But trust me guys, according to me alongside
every independent and confident woman, definitely there will be half a dozen
guy friends supporting her and constantly reassuring her not to give up and
keep going. I feel so blessed to have you all in my life and thank you so much
for being there for me through thick and thin.
