Friendship - 'Bond with the Best'

August 5, 2012

(Friendship Day)

 
'Roses are red, violets are blue, friends like you, are very few… happy friendship day!'
 
Does this sound familiar guys? Haven’t we all, at least once, done this in our childhood days? Where we either designed a card of our own or bought one and wrote those sweet little words in it for our ‘best friend’ (as we term them) on the auspicious occasion of ‘friendship day’?
 
“Happy friendship day!” We hear our friends shouting this out on one particular day of the year. In fact, sometimes, even we, voluntarily or not, shout that back. The greetings are followed by hugs and finally by the age old tradition of exchanging flowers, gifts, cards and the much coveted ‘friendship band’ with our friends. Sometimes we even hold competitions as to who receives the maximum number of friendship bands by the end of the day. But in reality, we actually ‘know’ that our depth of friendship is not governed by these bands.
 
Even though friendship day is observed on different days all around the world, in some countries that include India, we celebrate friendship day on the first Sunday of August every year and this year it falls on August 5.
 
Today, things have mellowed down as compared to the past, and even though the hugs haven’t reduced to a considerable number, the gifts have, as nowadays many are of the opinion that it is not only on ‘one’ particular day that we actually remember our dear friends.

Many term it as a ‘gimmick’ as well, where this day is used as a trump card to increase the sales of gift items and fancy stuff.

No matter how much we agree with this notion, still, there will be one or two special friends that we ‘actually’ wish and greet on this particular day. Call it old fashioned or being childish, this actually gives most of us some sort of a joy that cannot be expressed or explained to our elders. When our friends wish us on this particular day, it makes us feel special and gives us a sense of pride and belongingness to them and surely this calls for a celebration!

Many youngsters of today are of the opinion that no matter how much people try to shun this concept by instigating in our minds that this is just another day plus the show off of having friends, or wastage of money, we will remain friends and will leave no special day without celebration, especially “friendship day” duh!!
 
With the progress of technology, nowadays people celebrate friendship day online, through e cards, social networking sites and the like.

Even thought the trend of friendship bands and gifts have reduced, we still keep it in mind and make it a point to wish our friends or to at least remind them that “hey! Today is friendship day!!”, and expect that sweet little brief wish from them.

 

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By Anjana Ramakrishnan
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Comment on this article

  • Arun Prakash Menezes, Bantwal

    Thu, Aug 16 2012



    The two hands that come together on friendship day to convey our wishes remain together all the time – ‘A friend in need is friend indeed’

  • M.SHAMEEM ANSARI, BANGALORE

    Sun, Aug 12 2012

    REMMEBER WE ALL STUMBLE EVERY ONE OF US THAT'S WHY IT'S A COMFORT TO GO HAND IN HAND

  • M.SHAMEEM ANSARI, BANGALORE

    Sun, Aug 12 2012

    RAKESH SHETTY mangalore
    A TRUE FRIEND REACHES AND CURES PROBLEMS QUICKER THAN A DOCTOR CAN!!

  • Sam Dcruz, Mangalore/Adelaide

    Tue, Aug 07 2012

    Very good article. Friends are really important in our lives. They are the family that we get to choose. Friendship does not need a day to be celebrated. It is celebrated in every day of our life.

    And Mr. Rakesh Shetty, we don't need your opinions about our culture. You were not the one who started it. So just keep your culture talk to yourself.

  • anna, mangalore

    Mon, Aug 06 2012

    What is our culture Mr. Rakesh Shetty? Beating girls is our culture. Write one good article and tell us what is our culture.? Living united with peace, love and harmony is main culture of India.

  • Rakesh shetty, mangalore

    Mon, Aug 06 2012


    FREINDSHIP DAY, VALENTINSE DAY SHOULD BE BAN. THIS IS NOT OUR CULTURE.

  • R.Bhandarkar., M

    Mon, Aug 06 2012

    Happy 'Friendship Day'...
    All my friends are females. There was a time when I could not 'draw the line'...Now I can... They call me more mature now... Well..sigh! Love you all Daiji Family n forever...

  • HENRY MISQUITH, M'LORE/BAHRAIN

    Mon, Aug 06 2012

    Good friendships are hard to find and need to be maintained like a marriage. Happy friendship day to all the readers of Daiji.

  • Flywon C. Miranda, Mangalore/Riyadh

    Sun, Aug 05 2012

    Happy Friendship Day to all readers of DAIJIWORLD.com

  • faizal, MANGLORE

    Sun, Aug 05 2012

    never ignore a person who loves you, cares yo, miss you. because one day you may wake up from sleep and realize that you have lost the moon while counting stars.

    keep smiling

  • pks, mlore

    Sun, Aug 05 2012

    happy raksha bandhan sister


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