Friends-Free enterprise!

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we were yesterday..uglier to others but lovelier to each other...and can afford to be stupid too....redoubled our joys, completely rejuvenated, a good BREAK...by that here I mean "friends" and friendship and how important it becomes to have a good bunch of them, engage in inconsequential chatter, to be able to just be yourself with them, be unreservedly frank, almost a real value to survival....Road to realization-that now a close knit family!....even though we've changed and finding our own place in the world but no matter what we still carry the feeling of oneness....

Four years ago the discovery started as to who all "would grow separately without growing apart", with time we found or rather discovered a reasonable circle of friends...."don't remember how we happened to meet each other, don't remember who got along with whom first , all I remember is all of us together...always" .....absolutely down-to-earth people, no hang ups in life, very informal, gives us a feeling of being our own...therefore no formalities whatsoever and that's what I appreciated!....being in this part of the world minus family is like a huge vacuum....hence we needed those special few who would be able to leave a footprints in our hearts....Its a fact that "Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for families"...and mind you they were all strangers in the first place....but now they do form an important part of our life....today I/we realize this even more....

We are all born alone, live alone, die alone yet we needed these strong and habitual inclination of friendship ( the most quoted subject in the history of mankind)....its a taste of truth which spares nothing...Hence "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom" by Marcel Proust.

And as Barbara Ehrenreich's quotes " That's free enterprise , friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the greatest thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that don't even have to be a player to lose".....strikes a chord in me!