A Tale of How I Met My Best Friend

How I Met My Best Friend: A Great Bond

Once I was Approachable; Now I am Unapproachable. I used to trust people easily. I never had a trust issue with my friends. I experienced one of the most beautiful relationships in my life. The existence of friends makes life worthwhile but it is your fate to find someone who stays loyal to you throughout your life. Friendship is based on simple rules of trust and honesty. Once this trust gets broken then nothing is left in a relationship. One incident is enough to change you as a person. An incident like this happened that changed me to who I was and to who I am now. And it's connected to how I met my best friend. I can relate to the pain of losing a best friend. A friend who was with me for more than ten years. She was the second person after my mother who knows everything about me. Our bond was so strong that we finished each other’s sentences, wore each other’s clothes, and stayed each other’s house. Our bond was more than friendship, we had a special spark between us that made our bond unique from others.

My family used to live in Lahore but due to some official reasons my father got transferred to Karachi. As I never visited the Karachi before so everything was here new to me – market, places, and even school. At this new school, everything seems strange to me as I was shy I had difficult in communicating with others. Once I was sitting in lunch break, the group of girls bullied me and took my lunch away as I was stranger at this place so instead of defending myself I started crying. The girl who was standing next to me, observing this whole situation came to me and introduced herself. She smiled at me and asked me if I wanted to have the lunch with her that was a day when I met my best friend. From this day new journey began which continued for more than ten years.

Unbreakable Bonds: Shared Memories and Support

As time was passing our friendship was setting an example for people around us. We both were there for each other. We stick to each other through thick and thin. We had shared countless of memories, highs and lows, ups and downs, laughter and tears, secretes and gossips. Not only us but also our families developed a bonding. I and my best friend became an inseparable sisters. Suddenly the storm hit us so hard that our bond failed to survive. It was a tough time when my friendship was ended. It all began when I lost my grandmother, her unexpected death left me shook and as a result I went into serious depression.

During that time I need someone to whom I can share whatever I am going through, someone who can listen to me for hours but never get tired. The only person I know at that time was my best friend. I started visiting her once a week to feel better. Suddenly after some time I noticed a change in her behavior. The change was not obvious but still there was something that disturbed me about her behavior. I asked her many times what is wrong or is everything fine or not but she always replied so casually. One day I gave her a surprise visit, I went to her room, I was about to knock the door when eventually I heard my name, I stopped there to listen to what my friend is going to say about me. My intention was pure as I was sure that she will admire me behind my back but unfortunately, I was wrong. She was making fun with someone on call. I never thought she would stab me in the back. She just not only told my secrets but also mocked me at my grandmother’s death. Just after listening to her conversation, I was in trauma. I don’t know how to react or what to say. I was not in a condition to speak a word so I left quietly.

The End of Friendship with My Best Friend

After a week passed I wrote a letter to her in which I poured my heart out. It was the last conversation that happened between us and it was time when I changed myself for everyone. First I easily trust everyone but since this incident, I promised myself that I would not allow anyone to play with my feelings. There I realized it’s better to have an honest enemy than a backbiting friend. Things after this incident start happening differently and I start thinking about people more from the mind than the heart.

In my opinion, a good friendship is very difficult to come across and the ones who find it are one of the most blessed people on this planet. Friendship is all about trust and feelings. It gives the person total freedom to be who they really are but opening up to your friends to such an extent that they know everything about your personal life may cause you harm at some point in life so it’s better to make friends with some limits and space.