Lessons From The Journey - II (Friendships)

1. Do not add prefixes to your friends or Don't categorize or label friendship. They're either friends or someone you just know. 

Every time you categorize friends like best friends/close friends/just friends, you're making a mistake of believing that they're gonna fit into​ the category even in future, which is IMPOSSIBLE. 

Friends are friends. They can change into someone you just know (in future) and it's ok. 

We're all evolving in life and also in friendships, so It's okay. Breathe out and let 'em go!

2. Each friend of yours is different from you at different levels, and you may also have something in common. Accepting them and not analysing every detail of what they do (or do not) is only gonna save you from wasting your time and effort. Most importantly trying to change them to suit your way is the meanest thing you can do to them. So Accept and Don't analyse/judge friends.

3. You may start with a dozen friends, but as you evolve, you'll be left with only one or two, who may have not even been a part of the dozen friends that you started out with. So if you are at the verge of exhausting your dozen and you think you're gonna live a friendless life, like I feel, just make yourself the friend who's gonna be there for you, and be happy with the ones who are still left.

4. If your friends are not reliable, are not there for you at the times of crises, don't bother to know your well-being, or just stick around you for their needs (or fun) and leave you after the need is over, don't hesitate in removing them from your priorities.

5. Friendships are important. So are relationships. If friendship is like the kidneys, relationship is like the lungs. You need both. Damaging either one for the sake of the other is only doing harm to you, for you need both to function normally. Strike a balance.

6. There is a thin, invisible line between you and your friends. And that line is called privacy. Maintain.