Real Friends Born in a Virtual World
It’s been said there are 2 worlds- the real world and the virtual one but for some people there is another world and that is the one that exists between the above mentioned two. Here evolves a story of a group of friends who have never met each other (except a very few of them) nor are they related to each other by any homebred relations but still they have stayed with each other through the tests of time.
Since our childhood we have seen several facets of friendship or may I say relationships that used the cloak of friendship till it was needed and threw it away once the need was fulfilled and by the time we reached our adolescent we realized that we are yet to learn what a true friendship and who a true friend are. We are cautious to be friends with people whom we know physically, leave apart being friends with people whom we have never known or seen. But still, despite of all such pull backs, there exists some relations which go beyond everything and the friendship between this bunch of friends exemplifies that.
Geographically speaking, they span through the whole country, some stay abroad too. They belong to varied religion and culture. But still they have proved friendship has the power to cross borders, sometimes continents and seas and in this case, friendship has even travelled across the Solar system. (Don’t raise your eyebrows; I will come to the Solar system part later). And there exists no differences when all of them are together. They gel like they have known each other over a long, long period of time. They share their problems, big and small, important and unimportant, serious and funny. They build unjustifiable relationships among them. They call each other by weird names. They never leave a chance to tease each other- verbally or by action (like tagging each other on funny photos). They get used to each other and start missing each other if one of them is out of the circuit for some days. They unnecessarily pick up farce fights with each other and later on when rest of the people get serious and worried, they say, “We were having fun!” All of them jump together and fight if any one of them is hurt or insulted by someone out of the group. They share all cheap jokes and make fun of each other and every possible person they know. In short they do all the madness which others think they shouldn’t do but they think they should do!
Some of you might think how people who don’t know each other can be like this! Let me tell you it’s not about knowing each other, it’s about understanding each other. In our life, we know a lot of people but how many do we really understand or how many of them do really understand us? Friendship can come in any form, colour, shape and size. It depends on us how best we are able to adapt with that given combination. I’m lucky to have got friends who have been with me whenever I needed a company or a reason to smile, whenever I wanted to overcome my anger or sorrow, whenever I wanted a small help which was otherwise not entertained by my “real” friends.
I don’t know to whom I must be grateful; God, SRK or the person who invented internet but whomever it is he has made us have some real gems in our life. I have got an elder brother with whom I have shared all my problems. He is just a call away. He has listened to me over hours and hours without any complain or sign of irritation and have given me solutions which were doable and effective. I have got a cartoon-turned-filmed character who has never ever left a chance to crack jokes on me but on a serious note has guided me with his witty advices. I have got friends who have helped me with whatever they could at all times. Be it suggestions, stupid ideas, knowledge or sometimes facts, they have been there always. I have got younger brothers whose legs I could pull just like that and being their elder sister they couldn’t fight with me. But yes, I could also wish them happy Rakshabandhan and Bhai Duj.
The thing I missed the most being a single child. I have got a sister cum friend who has the same whacky mind as me and has helped me a lot to bore the rest of us with elan! I have got some children too and the most favourite of them calls me “Mommy” in every line and everywhere! I used to have my own family too which unfortunately broke due to some Ekta Kapoor serial-type drama but that’s okay. As long as we are together I ain’t complaining about what form of relationship we are having. I have got two undefined relationships- one who was supposed to be my son and the other who was supposed to be my son-in-law, both of them never took the within-family relationship seriously and tried to do something out of it. But now even they have got settled and we are back again as happy faces! Adding to all these, all of us have got a friend from Pluto who has the capability of turning every serious thing into a comedy and make us ROFLMAO.
After knowing each other for so many months I have realized we have really travelled together, not just with time but with social networking sites too. It first started with Orkut and Yahoo confys, then to Facebook, now it’s Twitter and next I don’t know what new networking site would come up but I am sure we would continue with our eccentricity there too. Whatever we are with the outer world, amongst us we are the same old happy and “gay” nautankis and drama queens- rudely honest yet compassionate and lovable.
This write up is for all those people who have cared for me always, showered wishes and blessing on all possible occasions (including Birthday, Friendship's day, Mother's day, V'day, Marriage day, Divorce day and blah-blah days) and has made me happier whenever I have been with them. Vik da, Batman, Silpi, Tapu, Vijay, Sev, Aryun keeda, ODiot, Ayuchhh, Dhile, Avirukkkk, Don, Chintoo, Raaz, Ayuchi, and Vyzzz miss you all. Be happy and keep rocking. :)