Virtual Friends I would Like To Meet

  As you journey through life, you meet people of varying personalities, shapes and sizes and nationalities. You relate to some and slowly but surely a friendship may be forged. Some friendships last a lifetime and some just fizzle away. 

A strong and true friendship is generally based on qualities such as generosity, kindness, honesty, loyalty, empathy and other positive traits that will strengthen and hold the bond of friendship. However, every human being comes with his share of quirks. Friendships are forged in spite of the quirks and varying interests. The quirks may draw you to one another. 

Your friend circle will include, chaddi - buddies, friends made in school and college, work friends, neighbourhood friends, and train friends, if you happen to commute by train. Virtual friends are the latest addition to your friend circle. 

Virtual friends are those friends made on the internet. You haven't met them in person. You communicate with virtual friends through messages and chats. You and your virtual friends are not really aware of each other's temperaments until you meet. When and if the meeting happens, you could be delighted or you could be disappointed.

I would love to meet this bunch of very lively and spiritual ladies with whom I have been engaging only virtually for the past 3 years in a Bible study class once a week. After so much virtual interaction, I would be happy to see them in the flesh. The meeting could go any way and I must be prepared and I am. 

  I read this rather interesting article about 'losing friends along the way' The writer received a forward that said, 'if you are not losing friends then you are not growing up.'

 No man is an island and friends are an elixir to live. Life happens, you make friends and somewhere along the way you begin to lose touch with some of them, you find that you have very little or nothing in common, your goals and dreams differ, and you walk different paths in pursuit of your goals and dreams and you make new friends along those paths.  Hence in order to achieve your dreams and goals and to grow, says the writer losing friends is inevitable. "In order to move on, you need to outgrow people and situations. You don't need to break friendships, you stay in touch but just about." 
 My significant other swears by the fact that your only friends are the friends that you made in childhood and the college gang that you hung out with. By and large that belief contains many grains of truth.  There are however exceptions to the rule as chaddi-buddies are also known to have drifted apart. 
Social media has helped us find long-lost friends, and made reunions happen but many on our friend list remain faces and names on the list with no action or interaction. Some virtual 'friendships' are most disconnected. 
Count your friends when your life has been engulfed by storm clouds and you are sinking into the depths of despair. How many will help you weather the storm? Of those that hung out with you how many will hang in with you helping you weather the storm? I am thankful to those who have hung out with me in good times and bad. 
 

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