We All Need Best Friends

Our friends work as our support system in the journey of life. No matter how confident and self dependent we are, we all need best friends. Usually people have one best friend and some of us have group of close friends but there is none who you can call as your best friend. I am one of the few people who do not have one but two best friends. I know three’s a crowd but in our case it is fun, craziness, excitement and lots of laughter. Today I am writing this article because three of us are on the point of our lives where we have to choose paths that might separate us in the near future. New job, Higher studies, Marriage-yeah these are the things that are changing our paths. I know life cannot always be the same but it still terrifies me that my new life may not include my best friends the way my present life has. You may say that friends are not meant to be together for all their lives but I disagree. I think we all need our best friends in our lives because without them life becomes more complicated and really hard to deal with.

Here are a few things why I think that we all need best friends:

· They are your family but without the drama (!!): There are some things which you can always tell your best friends but not your family because one thing that family members most of the time do, is judge you but when it comes to your best friends they always support you all the way through without being judgmental. Also, they are the first one who will tell you when you are doing something wrong. When family members do not like something of they often do not tell you directly and as a result relationships become strenuous but in friendship everything is out in the open so there is no formality or hesitation. This is why I think we all need best friends because they work as compass for our lives!

· Your emergency call: Our best friends are always the one who get the emergency call from us. When you are in trouble, the speed dial you hit is your best friend’s number because you obviously do not want to worry your parents or family in some cases. Also, because best friends are not family members, they can take decisions in emergency cases more logically and calmly. I always call my best friends whenever there is an emergency. I do not call my parents because they worry too much over nothing and even if I inform them, they become so emotional that their advices become partial.

· Your life-jacket: We all need our best friends do protect us from this mean world. Be it in school, college, university or workplace; our best friends always stick with us in time of need. My best friends did not go to the same university I went but still they knew every detail of my university life and whenever I talked about a new guy or new friend I met they gave me their opinion about the person because I am a person who socialize with people easily without knowing that person very well. So, they always try to get to know the people and ask questions about them when they think I am becoming close with them so that they can have an idea about what type of person I am mixing with. Eventually I came to know that in most cases their judgments were right! They are definitely my life-jacket protecting me from this world. If you have a best friend, I am sure you understand exactly what I mean.

I believe that best friends work as a parallel to family in our lives. There are some things (your relationship, work problem) that you cannot talk with your parents freely. I am not saying that best friends should be given more priority over your family but I think that their importance is similar to family. They are our outlet of frustrations, depressions and anger in life. I never worry my parents whenever I am feeling frustrated with my work life. Whom do I call? Yes, my best friends. We talk, eat and in the end try to find out a solution of my frustration. In many cases they work and in some cases they do not but I do not care about that! I have my best friends with every step of my life and that works as good as any solution. In the end I can say this that no matter how life changes or who we become but will always need our best friends in our life.