A hit Tamil film song goes, ‘Friendship is the ship that never sinks’. A person without a good friend is a very lonely person indeed.
People don’t get to choose their relatives but the beauty of friendship is that we get to choose our friends. Life without friendship is simply unimaginable. Friends accept us with all our faults and foibles. They don’t preach to us or lecture us about studies and how to behave, etc.
They are just happy to be with us and this makes us comfortable with them. We can unburden our hearts to them knowing that we will get a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. Friendship is like a pleasant oasis in the desert for the presence of friends makes us joyful and calm even in the midst of problems.
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Friends encourage us in all that we do while parents mostly want us to do well in studies. Loyal friends will defend us from enemies who try to slander us. Recently, there was a movie about friendship in Malayalam. It was later remade in Tamil and Hindi. The movie was about friendship and how it can even change lives. It is about two friends. One becomes a barber and the other, a big movie star.
At the end of the movie, there is a scene in which the movie star, at a school function, pays a deeply moving tribute to his old friend whom he does not recognize in the crowd. He talks about his poverty-ridden childhood days and how his classmate would share his food with him and even cut his hair for him as he could not afford a haircut.
Seeing his talent and potential, his friend encouraged him to dream big and sold off his gold stud to help him run away to the big city to realize his dreams. There was not a single dry eye in the theatre when this scene was shown. Need I say more to describe the power of friendship?