Friendship

01/02/10
Completed morning program.Attended to professional and personal work.Venita accompanied me for shopping in South Delhi.A friend sent the following interesting sms:
"Zindagi DOSTON mein mila karti hai,or Ye dost bhi ajeeb hote hein..
Dene pe aaye to jaan dede,Lene pe aaye to hansi tak cheenle.
Kehne pe aaye to dil k tmam raaz tak keh de,Chupane pe aaye to yeh tak na bataye k khafa kyun h.
Naraz hone pe aaye to apni sanso ka vaar de..
Bas dost zindagi mein nahi mila karte ..
balki zindagi DOSTON mein mila karte hein."

In reply to this sms I sent the following sms:
"Excellent.Sentiments melt away before self interests.It is true for sentiment of friendship also."

On receipt of my reply my friend got a shock and thought that he was not a friend of mine but a person who keeps in touch with me to axe his grind.As soon as his self interest is fulfilled he forgets and so also the glib of friendship.I told him that I made a general observation and that there are exceptions to it and that he was an exception. So was his friendship.
Out of curiosity,I reviewed the month of January and our movements during it.Apart from visiting Kurukshetra on the New Year day we were in Delhi. During the month we had 8 invitations for lunch & dinner and hosted a tea party and a lunch.Out of 8 invitations, we could attend 2 luncheon only,1 at Meghalaya House and another at BED college Farooq Nagar,Haryana. We could not go in others, mostly due to extreme cold weather or sickness of Venita.Earlier we did not miss a single party.It appears that now we are attending to 25 percent of them only.We will try to improve it to at least 50 percent during this month.
Retired to sleep at 2200 hours.