Sunday, August 07, 2011

Friendship Day? Really?

So how did you 'celebrate' this 'Friendship Day'?

Mine was a pretty standard fare: got a few forwarded SMSs with flowery messages about friends and friendships, saw some tweets and FB statuses with 'Happy Friendship Day' (some even tried now-so-yawnworthy 'Fraandship' too) and that was it. Hope you did hang out with your friends and I don't mean the group web chat on Google+.

I have become 'wiser' (read 'cynical') with wishing people: Every new year I write 'Happy New Year' to x number of people and then get reply from x/6 number of people. So this time I decided to just reply to people who cared to send me those flowery 'Friendship Day' messages with a not-so-flowery 'Happy Friendship Day to you :)'.

I didn't feel guilty about my cynicism. I justified that by thinking of being brutally honest about my friendships. May be it is the scars I got from the people I called 'friends'. May be I should have moved on by now, may be I have. May be I need to do more about it. May be I have become choosy about the people I want to be friends with. I don't think I have understood and accepted the Facebook culture of friendship. May be I am still old-fashioned and my thoughts/values about friendship are stuck to same old ones. May be I am a jerk!

I know this post presents me as a full on psycho but I really don't care. At the end of the day I am just glad to have talked to some of the friends I value. But for such friends who needs a special 'friendship day'!

5 comments:

Pawan said...

You have become a Buddha!!!
Hope you get enlightened in other areas too.. (not cynical view, but a real one).

ankur said...

I didnt recieve a single message during the day except for those who commented on my facebook status. So probably am friendless in the world?

But i don't think so much, neither do i evaluate relationships. Its life and it has to be lived...remorselessly

Priyanka Roy said...

You thoughts make a lot of sense.... It revolves in every body's mind... its just that you have honestly confessed it...

siddheshwar said...

may be all your assumptions are write :D
jokes apart, its well composed and liked it coz you echoed my voice as well :)

Essjay said...

Like button is still missing from blogger...I like it.

But if all starts thinking in you way then mobile companies will go in losses....