A Brand New Beginning

Cuddling puppies, warm blankets, a cup of coffee, clothes that effectively hide your fat, presents, cookies, cakes, jingles, fogs and in some luckier parts of the world, snow. 

Winter. 

Christmas.

New Year. 

There's something special about this time of the year. The air feels fresh. Winter mornings offer you a breathtaking site. Dense fog, pearl like tiny dewdrops on leaves. A stillness around you. The birds take their own sweet time to come out of their nests. The sunrays touch your face, gently, very gently. Just to make you aware of its presence. Just to provide you with the warmth that you yearn for when the temperatures dip into the 10s.

That's winter. 

The trees shed their leaves, animals seek comfort underground. The year's coming to an end. "How did this year get over this fast?", that's exactly what we're thinking right now.

We've reached the end of a book. But, there are many more pages to be filled, many more books to be written, stories to be created and shared.

So does winter signify an ending?

Nope. Look carefully. 

It signifies a brand new beginning. 

Choose.

Friends.

Google the word and you'll find hundreds of dictionary definitions, dozens of sites which help you make new friends and stay in touch with the old ones, and almost a million stories on friendship written by the likes of Blyton, Bond, etc.

But, are mere words enough to express the essence of this word or this relation? 

No.

Our body holds the most advanced machine on this planet. The Brain, lodged in a compartment of the skull, the cranium. We think, analyse, act. We choose. We decide. And all of this is controlled by this organ weighing less than 1.5 kilograms. So, isn't it natural to think that we "choose" our friends? 

We don't. We can never choose such stuff. You make friends by accident. And once you've made a friend, there's no going back. 

It's been almost two years since I left my old place and shifted to this city. Making friends was tough initially. I was reluctant to do that. I felt I had exhausted my capacity of forming new ones. Now, I know, it just wasn't the truth. So, yes, while the master organ above, made me think that I didn't need friends, life whispered that I do. 

So, to conclude, don't plan to choose your friends(otherwise you'll just keep waiting forever), choose to make friends. 

Keep smiling! :)