Sati is a relationship of this world which is not affected by any country-time, label or caste-caste, age barrier. A 70-year-old man can be friends with a seven-year-old child. There can be friendship between men and women. There can be friendship between man and beast. A tree and a person can be friends too! A friendship is a relationship of affection, communication, understanding and ease. Friendship has nothing to do with position, prestige or honor. Friendship-friendship and love, all have only two and a half letters, but friendship is more important than love. If you don't have a bunch of friends, but if you have one friend in the bunch, it becomes a friend for life. Friendship is like the oxygen in the air – it cannot be seen by releasing it, automatically one becomes friends with someone in such a way that only oxygen is released and breathed out of the many gases in the atmosphere. It is not necessary to call dialogue every time we speak and someone listens and responds. Sometimes even silence is a dialogue. There is also a dialogue of touch… Here one thing of 'Maryz' comes to mind, 'Whose husband dies is called a widow, whose wife dies is called a widower, whose parents die is called an orphan, but whose friend dies. What is it called? All the languages of the world have uniformly failed to answer this question.' Friendship is friendship. Parents, siblings cannot be chosen, but friends can be chosen. Friendship is one of the most important relationships in life that helps us survive in good and bad times. Friendship is like wine, the older it is, the rarer it is. Even if they are smooth, soft, washed and worn, even if they are a little torn, we still wear some clothes, same is the case with friendship. It becomes smoother, smoother and more comfortable with time. In the Rigveda Mitra is called the sun, Bhartrihari says, 'Mitra is like the shadow of the evening. It is short at first but becomes longer and more intense with time.' Gulzar Sahib's lines about Dost: Bewajah hai, tabhi to dosti hai, wajah hoti to, sazish hoti. Just like friendships, some relationships in our lives are not found ready-made, they have to be cultivated and nurtured. Honestly, we have no idea that there are many people around us who make our life easy. Starting from the sweeper who comes to pick up the garbage in the morning, to those who deliver vegetables, iron clothes, courier service or home delivery person who delivers hot meals to our homes, domestic help or cooks at home, gardeners, watchmen, drivers to restaurant waiters, our luggage in hotels. Room delivery… There are so many people who make our lives better by adding convenience to our lives. It is our duty to have gratitude towards them. We can express our gratitude to God by giving a small tip to the home delivery or courier in rain or winter or by asking him for a glass of water in summer. Veteran writer Salim Khan, father of actor Salman Khan, once said in his interview, 'If you want to know the character of a man, you should see how old his servants are and how old his friends are'. How true this is! Human relationships are usually built on selfishness and broken by selfishness. Most of the people believe that the people who employ them there are working only because of the lure of money or because of compulsion. People who work there who think like that end up thinking the same way. Those who count only money, their employees also count money… But, those who consider their staff, employees as a family, because of them, their business is running and growing so smoothly, their employees also. Responds to the same feeling. Things like success, power, position, prestige don't last forever, so people who are attracted by all these things and get into a relationship go with it, but things like kindness, goodness, sympathy or affection are ours. If personality is part of it, the people who connect with us not only connect with us because of those qualities, but stay forever. All are not the same in this world created by the Supreme Being. When the age of the boy who delivers the hot food is almost the same as the age of the boy who calls it, we will not be worn out by giving a little tip to the person who brings it, thinking that he will also have a desire or desire, with some goodwill or sympathy. He will not get used to it! We should be equally loyal and responsible to all the people who we want to be loyal, honest and responsible towards us.}
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