Dedicated to all the book lovers ! ~Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend Friends are like the co passengers we meet in our journey of life. Some share moments of joy while some borrow moments of sorrow. Some teach important lessons while others leave eternal memories. Some friends make one laugh in moments of despair while others identify one’s flaws in moments of complacency. A good friend however, is someone who mirrors one’s soul. Good friends inspire. They know our strengths and weaknesses, our deep secrets and fears and yet they never preach. They open our mind’s eye by helping us visualize vivid places, people and events from where we can gather our inner strength. They are with us always, they don’t treat us as a separate being, just the same way in which we make them an integral part of us. A good book broadens the realm of friendship by becoming a good friend. The feeling of friendship that began as a random introduction deepens with each passing page. It enthralls, enriches and enlightens. The words, the characters and the message of a good book entwines in one’s consciousness, they touch one’s life, one’s being and one’s soul. Just like a friend , a book knows exactly how to lift one’s spirit. When one is bogged down by miseries and disappointments, a book provides solace by providing the much needed company one was craving for. A book is a great conversationalist too. When one contemplates after reading a beautiful passage from a book, one derives an idea, a thought. Contemplation in this case is nothing but an active conversation of one’s mind with the book which can have elements of humor, reasoning or satire. Keeping the monotony of life aside, one embarks on a beautiful journey with a good book. Each page brings forward a new perspective in which one can look at one’s situation or one’s life as a whole. Like a friend , a books helps one identify one’s flaws without being non judgmental. A book’s friendship is selfless, you realize that it will be there for you no matter what. A book is also forgiving like a friend, it allows you to start all over again even if you have abandoned it for sometime. And then when the pages of a good book end, one realizes that in this journey of laughter, contemplation and togetherness, one’s good friend has become a part of one’s own self. As we close the book, we realize that our heart is overflowing with unconditional love and gratitude for our dear friend. Unknowingly a tear of joy trickles through the corner of our eyes. In that moment we realize that it is our journey which is transitory, our good friend remains with us till the end. We can never bid farewell to our good friend, when our journey ends, it bids a farewell to us.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 16:29:34 +0000
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