True friends are hard to find!!!!

It's really been more than a year since my best friend, Agnes, and I parted. I met Agnes in grade six, in school. We became best friend from grade seven till now. Our friendship is like some six or seven years old now. Agnes and I always help each other in time of need. We are always there for one another even through thick and thin. We never cheated each other. We always share things with each other and so there is no secret kept unknown between us. Though we are far away from each other, we still share our secrets while chatting online or through mail.


I find it really hard to find a true friend in life, but I should say I am lucky to have come across a best friend like Agnes. Then because of some circumstances, we have to part from one another. I know that in order to gain something in life, we have to loose something too. Life itself is not so smooth and most of the time, things won't happen the way we want it to happen. This is 'LIFE.' Though we are far away from one another, but the bond between us are still as strong as it used to be. We were best friend and are best friend and will always be best friend. We are 'BEST FRIEND TILL THE WORLD COMES TO AN END.’


Henri Nouwen said," When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."


I totally agree with Henri Nouwen that instead of giving advice and solutions or cures, we rather choose to share the pain and touch the wounds with a gentle and tender hand. This is what I did for Agnes and I am proud to say I have done it, even before knowing that Henri Nouwen had once quoted about it.