Friends like Family

When I first met them, we were rivals and strangers who knew nothing about each other. Time passed, and we just felt that friendship had urged within us and without any word spoken there are times that gestures were just enough to create a friendship that could withstand any challenges that came out way. The value of friendship to me was priceless; something that no one can obtain in a flick of time.

So, what makes a family a family? Can family only be a real family when all siblings in the family have the same dad and mom? Can family only be a real family when everyone lives under the same roof in the family? I believe that family isn’t just by blood, it is defined by something more.

Sometimes we come to see friends as family because members of the family we grew up with live far away or feel too different, or are just too difficult to deal with. Ending contact or cutting off a family member who brings you grief is a modern liberation, like the freedom to choose a spouse or divorce one. Holes left by rejected or rejecting relatives, or left by relatives lost to distance, death or circumstance, can be filled by friends who are like family. 

They are the ones you can run up to in times of any crisis as well as during the happy moments of your life. The world might go through a tremendous change but friends are the people we can rely on no matter what. Often known as siblings from different parent, friends keep us grounded as well as also help us retain the child in us no matter how old we get or how busy we are in leading our professional as well as personal lives.

I personally ignore the fact about whose DNA has recombined with whose when everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching when you are going through hell, they are your family. Like the saying goes, ‘ Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.