To all my close friends...

 Though we are not in touch,

just wanna tell you that I still miss you all,

The days spent with you, the mischiefs and the pranks.

I wish we could bring back those days!!!

Wherever we go, we make new friends but some of them get so close that even after years of parting away, we miss them. I dedicate this post to all my school and college friends who were just like a family. Though, we don't talk or meet often but you are still dear to my heart. The years spent with you were the best ones till date !

Once we begin our professional life, it is felt that friendships were selfless and pure only till the college days. The kind of bond we share with our childhood friends is very special and much different from the professional friendships. We can be ourselves without the fear of being judged. No one bosses or tries to be our guide or pathfinder. All of us walk on the same track, living life like a free bird and enjoying each and every moment. We always used to just laugh away at each others faults, play pranks...no serious business, at all !

Life was great and so easy. I never thought that some day we will part away and I will miss you all so much. I always believed that we must live in our present and while taking my journey of life, I never looked back at what I am losing. But today, where I stand, I can see so many acquaintances that I left on my way. I wish i had realized it then. Life has changed a lot now making me a completely different personality from what I was as a young adult. But truly speaking, that only was the 'real me'. I still sometimes try to meet and talk to my real self. How I wish, I could have those friends again to tell me who I was originally.

But the matter of fact is that over the years, they must have also gone through the same life cycle and transitions. Probably, they are also not the same. But still I feel, that if we were together at this stage, at least we would have been the same lively people that we were. 

How to make your relationships strong !!!

 I have always talked about relationships - how important they are for us. They make us feel happy, secure, loved and alive. Man, being socially attached, can not even imagine his life without people around. But the irony is... these relationships make us crazy. Day and night we struggle to maintain them. In order to do this, we keep telling ourselves, the do's and don'ts. Somewhere in our heart and mind, we develop a stress to keep everyone around us happy and satisfied. And over the years, we keep forgetting about us as an individual. A father keeps doing things that make his kids happy. A wife always tries to please her husband. A daughter always wants to be an apple of her parents' eyes. Isn't it? Where do they remember - who they are and what do they want? In making everyone happy, they somewhere, lose their own happiness. When someone questions a mother, what is her favorite dish? She doesn't remember...!!! Though she can very well tell what her family likes to eat. A husband trying to bring harmony between his parents and his wife forgets to remember that he always loved going on family outings.

Why do we make our lives so complicated??? This is the million dollar question ...! 😀😀

You can not make others happy if you yourself aren’t feeling elated. To please someone, you must be pleased by the other person too. Life is like a mirror. You get what you give. A suppressed son can not become a family support ever...that’s true.

So, the key to healthy relationships with others is to be at peace with yourself. To strengthen your bonds with people around you, you have to be yourself first. If you are happy, energetic and positive, these vibrations will surely touch the people you love. Thereby, making your relationships with them even stronger. 

So, keep yourself pampered always. The world looks exactly the way you perceive it !!!