"A Friend may die, but not the Friendship" ! - These are the very words uttered by a very close friend of mine, so many years back, on the date of leaving for a Foreign Country on a long assignment. The words and the day of his departure is still green in my memory, including the feeling of loneliness and grief I had at that moment, but still I consoled myself saying that the feeling of friendship would ever exist even in the absence of physical presence of the person!
Yesterday i happened to browse through STORYLANE which had prompted a Topic for article to be written and it is: "Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?" - A Great Question and so very touching too! As the question reminded of my experience in Life I thought of putting through my views and feelings.
In this material world, True Friendship is the only solace for anybody, among all the other relationships! Friends may keep meeting everyday or they may not meet at all for a long time; but still their friendship continues. Once they meet, they can continue from where they left, provided they had maintained the true love and affection towards each other right from day one of their meeting.
Coming back the question that somebody put, I would say it would be a worse feeling when a good friend really moves away from you on some difference of opinion or on an utter misunderstanding of the situation. 'No, he should not have done this! should not have said bye for ever to me like this! Then what is the point? Where has his love and affection showered to me all these days have gone?' Even here I would say when there is true love prevailing at one end, the separation should not cause that much damage; In the heart of hearts of the one who feels this, the feeling of Friendship would still remain and the light of love and friendship would never extinct.
The second situation of losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you, is not a problem at all , I would say! Loosing touch with him can only be temporary because the bondage is still there! It is like a cow sent for gazing the grass. The other end of the rope is still in our hand! A waive of reminding the love would bring it back! Lack of regular meeting or loosing touch would never cause any serious problem in this case, but for some egoistic clashes here and there.
But my ultimate feeling with respect to both the situation is that Friendship and Love is never lost! If my love and affection towards that character, that personality is TRUE, I can never loose it in my lifetime ! The question of loosing friendship never arises at all, because whatever be the outward situation, the light of love keeps glowing! May be I loose the friend in physical form, but not the feeling of FRIENDSHIP at any time !
'A Friend is one who can hear the song in my heart and sing it for me when my memory fails"!
