Just talked with a friend. It was a brief conversation early in the morning. You always know that you have friends and then you have *friends*. What is it that really separates the best from the rest. It's definitely not a function of time or commonality of hobbies. I mean they are not the defining parameters. They could be few out of many. One could go on and on about what, why, how some people make us more at home or we feel more of ourselves with them. My mother had used this analogy once of gold. She said that for gold to be an ornament, for it to be used in our daily lives, We need to add impurities for it. Then only it has a perceived value. What we are required to do in this world is to form a perception about ourselves and similarly do the same to others. Perhaps it's a necessary evil for us to go through the gamut of our communications and exchanges with so many people around us. But thinking of how we feel when we spend time with a child. It's such a liberating feeling. It seems like we are seeing a reflection of ourselves, the free flowing, inhibition free, pure 24 carat gold that we all are. Time and experience teaches us to keep adding impurities and we start ignoring and also conveniently forget the pure self that we are. True that we can't be ourselves with everyone, especially at first. But our subconscious is a centre with powers powerful, receptive and perceptive than what we think. It has it's own mechanism of figuring out the vibes as we call it way before we understand it at a more superficial level. Automatically we feel more at home with certain kind of people. Friends and those who love us are those who accept us in our pure state although it is necessarily not the most perfect states. Such people, no matter when we meet them, at whatever place, it doesn't matter. After all a chemical reaction between two identical substances always produces the Same identical stuff - gold.
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