"Bestest"

It's my "Bestest" friend's birthday today!

The one having whom in my life ,I can really call my achievement! Somewhere sometimes back I came across a one liner stating, 'a true friend is the one whom you take least care to acquire but you can open up your heart easily before him/her'. I can still remember my 1st day in hostel,wherein on the way to hostel to college I was sitting alone on the 1st seat of the bus , thinking, pondering and musing all to myself. It wasn't anything abnormal for me,neither was I missing my home and parents because it wasn't the first time that I was out of my home. Nevertheless, she came up all the way from the back seat and asked can she be my friend? She had noticed the loneliness deep set in me, which I had ignored so far. So went our friendship. We even shared our poetry-personal diaries and gradually became 'mind and soul mates'. My bed in the hostel became our thinking corner where we would think and discuss all night sometimes. I used to hate business and economics, but somehow she convinced me to have some glimpse of 'business today' even. We created orkut community called 'Abhivyakti' together and included all her and my friends to satisfy our knowledge thirst [although it has been dormant for a while now]. Whenever I felt a little low in life she would come up with an effective solution for it.
With so much ease and comfort she declared me to be her 'muse' and 'soul mate'. Though I didn't considered myself deserving enough for so much importance, but she made me feel so.
She is one of her kind who can consider herself a 'loser' only because of the fact that the circle of friends ,kith and kins around her is unhappy and she cannot do anything to comfort them. Her life is a kaleidoscope unravelling itself in such a way that even she doesn't knows the consequences of many things but she definitely knows her 'stand' which people complain she lacks of! Once she shared her few lines with me which seems so apt.
कभी कभी दुनिया भर की हिम्मत कम पड़ जाती है ज़िन्दगी के १ गम को छुपाने के लिए , तब आप समझ पाते हैं की आपने खोया क्या है।
ठीक उसी तरह जैसे ज्वालामुखी चट्टानों और पत्थरों में से दरार करती हुयी फूट पड़ती है और कई जिंदगियों को अपने चपेट में ले लेती है।

She is the only one after my mum before whom I don't prefer to put any mask at all. I used to hesitate calling any specific friend my 'best ' friend,because that might make other good friends feel less important. But she taught me it is not imperative that you ought to have only one best friend. There can be many best friends. There is no law prohibiting that.
So,I started calling her my bestest friend. Nonetheless I have many other best friends too. The one in school whom even my teachers and parents called inseparable and called our names together. The one in Jamshedpur school who shared with me common hatred for maths and love for 'Dosa uncle's south Indian delicacies.The one in college's 1st year,who guided me like an elder sis. The one in department with whom I share mine and our Bro's birth-dates[not month] and whose family members adored me affectionately. The one who shares similar understanding [IQ's] , tastes and preferences and who chose me to share her life with me at one point of time.The one who was not so good a friend during school time but seven years hence the longing for home and old buddy's still binds us tight.The one who shares similar writing and other creative skills,though being in another field.The one who shares opposite tastes in music,movies and imagery, still books, thought process and mutual appreciation holds us together. Every one had and has a great good soul which I adore from the bottom of my heart.

Diversified, howsoever it may seem, but I am glad to have so many best friends around me,recognizing whom, ARPITA has taught me!