What it takes to be a friend and a foe???

Friends as many claim are not selected by us. Just a minute chat, a small bus ride, a little space offered for a unknown pillion, a small wink at the first instance, a giggle for the same mockery, a huge cry for a strange simple cause can bring a life time friend. Sometimes hours long of talks, years together in the same room, months together under the same roof may not win u a friend but sure can get u a subtle enmity and a good opponent.

When people find a group of people always sticking together irrespective of age groups, they gasp but fail to understand, friends and friendship are not decided by age groups. (Anything more than two is a group). Many have the best feeling of sharing anything with their greatest buddy apart from their marital partner. A small walk along the roads, a hectic shopping on a rainy day, those little coffee at strange time of the day & night, petty fights for the cause of third person, mocking at the passer bys, getting abused by a bunch of thugs, getting delayed for a favourite movie coz of the best person, failing to wish at the expected time on a birthday deliberately, little gifts that were given unexpectedly, times when people wonder why this bloody crap couldn't understand whats in their mind? quizzing themselves as to what went wrong? who should forgive and who should ask a little forgiveness first? a dignity that is kept ahead when silly things mattered and put to the backseat when it comes to the real thing.....the list is endless

Sometimes many take it for granted. A liberty that makes one to rule over the other, to care to an extreme, to love so selflessly that turns into a possessiveness, that plagues the beautiful relationship with varying pitches of chords of misunderstanding mixed together to give out a melancholic tune that results in the best split up, in spilling a fury of wrath and vengeance that last longer than any of them .

Friendship too has its boundary well defined. A thin invisible line, that is hard to feel and pleasurable till reached and pains a lot when crossed. After all every little thing needs it own space to thrive on...so does friendship. A little patience, a little explanation will always save the day for anyone before proposing the conclusions...a mind opened to be questioned on its decision will always be welcomed in the streets of friendship. A concluding mind with the uttered words and actions, and a mind that fails to explain the hidden meaning behind the actions and words literally or not will always find it difficult to find even a rented house in the colonies of friendship.

Best friends need not talk hours together, need not be near always, need not see each other daily. Those are a rare breed of human pairs who could just keep things to themselves, who could curse each other all the time, but when they meet they live and share as if doomsday is here. A virtue that is placed in the deeper layers of every human, which is recognised by a handful of fellow mortals who call themselves the friends.

After all friends and friendship are rather destined to be so. To further go on and be a best of pals is fate indeed. To top it all, fortunately or not, if a best friend becomes the greatest foe, that is the ultimate destiny that one can dream of.