To all my friends on my phone book...
12.29.08 (7:06 pm) [edit]
Friendship is asking for directions, driving through traffic, and coming home for Eid Al Fitr. With gifts.
Friendship is a kind word when all you deserve are harsh ones for doing something terrible.
Friendship is taking you to and from the embassy and waiting in a car without air conditioning in the middle of summer while you try for your visa to Saudi.
Friendship is asking about your mother everytime you speak, as if its a habit.
Friendship is watching over a sister and brother when you're not there to protect them yourself.
Friendship is offering to beat up anybody who messes with you. No questions asked.
Friendship is helping clean up house when moving into a new place. And moving out.
Friendship is not being afraid to tell the darkest secrets. And knowing that they are safe.
Friendship is inviting you for every single Eid and treating you like you were a part of the family. Hugs, treats, unruly guests, tasty food and all.
Friendship is finding you after years of losing touch. And nothing has changed between you.
Friendship is taking your side even if it means having to stand up to a best friend.
Friendship is being angry and still wishing you well.
Friendship is worrying and showing that it can indeed be a priviledge. And what a priviledge it has been, it is, and always will be.
Friendship is trusting enough to tell about a stalker and asking help to take care of this problem.
Friendship is the wise-cracks, the sarcasm, the idiocy, and the retardation that comes with hanging out together.
Friendship is sharing secrets of where the best food in the world is made. And eating it together.
Friendship is not giving a crap about what other people say and trusting your own instincts about someone.
Friendship is leaving a kind comment on your blog to cheer you up, especially when that friendship is young and new, and nothing is owed.
Friendship is helping from a distance when being close will cause problems.
Friendship is the whats-mine-is-yours attitude where everything and anything can be shared. With exceptions. Like significant others. Tooth brushes. Underwear. Cheese sandwiches.
Friendship is an invitation for iftar every Ramadan, without fail, and leaving with stomaches full and hearts content.
Friendship is coming from another city to take a sick cat in for surgery at late hours of the night. And bringing other cat lovers along for the ride.
Friendship is sticking with you when you're stranded in the middle of nowhere without a ride.
Friendship is giving a place to stay when you don't have one of your own and could have been on the streets.
Friendship is going out of the way to make sure that you're well taken care of in your new job.
Friendship dropping by unannounced just to say Hi.
Friendship is bringing chocolate chip cookies to cheer you up when you feel like digging a hole and burying yourself.
...each of this could be attached to one of you. Can you tell me which?
posted by: Hemlyn (reply)
post date: 01.08.09 (11:24 am)
Cutest post ever... I recognized the cat surgery crew. :)
posted by: Keith (reply)
post date: 01.24.09 (9:14 am)
Any idea how the guy is doing?
posted by: Rizvi (reply)
post date: 02.02.09 (1:45 pm)
Great Post. Deep as ever. :)
posted by: Bilal (reply)
post date: 09.27.09 (2:19 pm)
Amazing...love the real life post..