To be or not to be… friendz!

All that is there in friendship is all that we need from life. I mean it’s a cocktail of all human emotions, relations and yard sticks. With time, life has taken away the subtle emotions, or I would say reserved it for a chosen few and subsequently the friendship tag has also become costly, rather dear!
Pitted against one another in the sprints everywhere, we all have diluted the concoction of the highest order! Riding the waves of socio-economic progress, armed with strange gizmos we have looked back lesser and lesser; to wait for someone or maybe even long for someone. And at times when its not been easy we have howled, cried, tried to be brave and just labeled it as the ‘forgettable patch’! Somewhere we are all too proud to open up! We are too proud to wear it on our sleeves… or is it just a fear psychosis which tells us that we would be caught on the wrong foot and there would be no one near to lean on? Somewhere we have just made ourselves too vulnerable…
And even if this was not a big enough issue, we have an attachment to the email of woes! The Hum-Tum angle… is friendship above the gender aspect?
In simpler terms, the girl-boy dosti? Has it really become a virtual reality?
Cut throat, there is still a lack of mutual respect among the fair-unfair sexes. Whoever is to blame, it’s just that someone is not either wearing the right clothes, or having the proper demeanor or someone is too full of ego to really keep the grey matters churning inside the cranium! Be it the physical or attribute it to the psychological- we have just tried to blind ourselves partially! I mean, some things in life cannot really be put on the scales and weighed out! Friendship I guess is just one of them.
I would say why not?! I girl n boy can be good chums but ya, the level of maturity and mindscape span would have to be enormous. Life would always have the bird’s eye view and the fish’s eye view (there are technical details from the physics angle which I should spare!!) and we should learn to respect and honor both. Instead we try to overpower judgments! It can just happen with conviction, with an open mind and heart- the ability to exchange views and not just jump the lines. But most importantly it would come with mutual respect. We are never happy with the cards in hand… we want the trumps; and so in a relationship we get overboard. Paint fancy landscapes with ‘two to tango’!!
Boy! Can’t friends live happily ever after?! Actually even our bed time stories had the ‘love-shove’ angle with the prince and his mare while the princess is bowled over!
So that’s where our tuning has gone wrong and we always modulate differently!! But still, as there would be, friends like books, few and well chosen… I would say a girl and a boy can graduate to best of pals even as a man and a woman… no strings attached!!