When we found our first friend…
Imagine taking our lives back to our school days, our main reason for us to go to school was to meet our friends and play together. While we enjoy most of the day in our playschool, we rush back home to tell our parents that we got the best friends in the world. Not knowing a clue of where we will end up in future, we started to hangout with them, shared our lunches with them and most importantly they were our teammates in whatever sports we pursued. And that’s the beginning of a lifetime of friendship, where we met our best friend.
OUR FIRST GROUP….
As we grew older together, we developed even better understanding on how our friends were, and we begin to form our own ‘groups’, and become ‘namma pasanga’ or ‘mera dhost’. This connection mainly roots from the age when we all start taking up sports as a team. Moreover, we nurture this sporting culture where we slowly break down the barriers of being ‘juniors’ and ‘seniors’ and truly become a team. Collectively, as friends we want the best time to spent with each other, but also serving a larger purpose by representing your school team and winning for our pride.
THROUGH TOUGH TIMES...
Even if higher education and exams, stress us at a point, our friendship saved us. We found our own ways to hangout and play our sport whenever time permitted, e.g during our lunch breaks, tea breaks or even after classes. This showed us that even beyond the physical benefits of pursuing sports, our metal well-being was taken care off, every time when we stepped on the pitch as friends and as a team. As a result, it was this strong friendship and the emotions that it carried, took us all the way to being soulful through tough times.
WE ARE MORE THAN A TEAM!!
In all our lives, we must have had at least one team huddle, an act of strong enthusiasm, trust and sharing of one same goal, i.e… to win the game as a team. This immense rush of feeling told us that our friends were always be there for us to have our backs, not only in winning but to console each other when we lost, where we realized the importance of teamwork.
There are situations where our friends may leave from our group, and it can be sad at many times. Irrespective of cultural differences, races or creeds, we constantly make new friends on the playground, and they allow us to be part of their team. The pitch, the ball, and our hands are always connected in a way to make sure, no matter where we go, we are always bound as a team in this sports community.
We all need friends, to whom we can convey our good and bad, who guide us, correct us and most importantly would love us for who we are. A very happy Friendship Day to all the friends out there. Stay loved, step out, make friends out there. Stay loved, step out, make friends, stay healthy.
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