This morning a colleague commented at the flower vase on my office desk and this is what she said “The flowers looked fresh from at a distance, but looking closer; I see they are not real. But they look beautiful!”
Those flowers were given to me by someone close with whom my friendship has faded recently. We make friends for all kinds of reasons. A friend never judges you and always is there in the time of need. So, most of the times you end up making very close friends during challenging periods of your life. Whatever is the reason of your friendship, it always allows you to grow in a certain way. Sometimes you grow apart. The situations that initially brought you together change and make you go in different directions. When you are close to a person, you also start noticing their flaws. Sometimes you talk about it but at other times you just ignore them, or harbor grudges or not-so-nice feelings. Eventually, one day you are left with nothing in common to talk about. All you do is saying Hi, exactly as you did in the beginning, except that now there is also no curiosity about that person, which adds to your not hanging out together anymore. They say that "The best of friends must part." This has recently happened with me. I was wondering if my friend only pretended to be real as those flowers and I was naïve initially to consider her good, like those flowers that appeared fresh from a distance. But looking at the good times we had and what we did for each other in crucial times, I think this friendship still is beautiful, like those fake flowers in the vase. Someone truly said “Friends are friends even when they leave.”
Sweet G…this piece is so touching…I have experience that in Zen there are four Chinese characters that mean SUFFER-LOVE-JOY-FORGET….the only way to move on in life is to carry a blank canvas and it calls for the last character and that is forget…this is one of the most difficult things a person can detach from is their memory, even if friends are friends they are not here subjectively and this is hard to say…they do not exist..but like I said Sweet G…it is a good post..enjoy Dearest Soul Angel of God(+)
Dom*
Thanks Dom for the comment. I know what you mean. Yeah it is hard to say that they do not exist as it is hard to comprehend that we do not exist. Do we really? When I sleep and when I wake up, everything seems to be dreamlike. There is no difference right now between the mind's state. It is the same for sleep and for the world's activity. If you have another nobody sitting next to you, you appreciate life even when it is a dream, you feel it to be real and even when it is unreal, you share love with them. I guess that is what we have manifested for, to experience the love and help co-create the magic that HE had in mind while manifesting as so much diversity.
Peace and Love
Garima