Friends – A beautiful relation you are not born with! -The Belonging Part2
Whenever one moves out of a familiar zone and into new surroundings, finding people with similar mindset and making them our friends becomes an important part of the transition . Due to certain planetary motions, I have been moving places practically all my life with a deep yearning inside for the magical word called ‘settlement’ (more so now as I have completed nearly four decades of existence as a mortal). Whenever, I have faced a change in my environment the brigade of my well-wishers specially give me a call and ask “Friends ‘bane’?”(Have you made friends?). When I say “Yes”, it is usually followed by a sigh of relief from the other side. Well, looking at it deeply, the fact we are looking for friends in a new unfamiliar environment carries variety of implications: 1. We crave for a sense of belonging means we look for people with whom we feel we can identify and share our lives with. We first hesitatingly let them in our private space a...