Sharing

     A very touchy topic but I felt the need to write this down now and here. How many of us openly talk to our friends and tell them our mind without having the need to hold back information? When is the last time you have told your friend you cannot talk or text or mail or see them simply because you don't feel like it? When is the last time the friend had accepted that and had not judged you for that? How many of us speak and actually share information with our friends?

     I have a very few friends with whom I can talk anything to and know for a fact that I am not being judged and the other person is indeed listening to my ramblings no matter how trivial it is or how irritating it is. I also have these friends tell me point blank on my face that they don't support what I am doing and they don't think what I am doing or saying is right and that they don't agree with it. How many of us are actually blessed with such friends? Or how many of us are such friends who don't feel the need to mask our thoughts and views if it differs from theirs? After all friends are meant to be like that right? 

     Have you ever felt the need to share you thoughts with anyone. I know I do. This blog is one such outlet for that necessity of mine. I also ramble with my few close friends. I can discuss anything under the sun with them. And some of them are utterly meaningless but I have those listening ears anyway. I think it is an excellent way of clearing off the misunderstandings you might have with your friends. I honestly declare my views to people who are important to me no matter how bad it is. There is this desperate want to let them  know what I think. And many times this had led to my friends getting angry and stomping off. But those who matters most and for those whom you matter to the most, always come back.

  

     There is one important aspect of sharing. You have to understand that the other person also have opinions and may not always be same as yours. It is not important that our opinions match but rather important that we are clear in what we communicate and are open minded to listen to a different perspective and accept and respect those views too though we may not agree with them. I had one such conversation with a very close friend of mine a few hours back and we did not agree on the topic. To others it might seem as though we were fighting as the words we were using are pretty strong, but we know that we are trying to cut through sense into the other person and make them see our point of view. In the end the conversation will end as it began, without any mutual agreement but we would have listened intently to each other and would have agreed that we both were right on our own stead. I think that if you claim to love someone, and call some one a trusted, close, best, bestest or any kind of a superlative friend, it is important to share. It is actually a blessing, as far as I am concerned that we have someone to share our views with. Otherwise people like me who keep building stuff up inside them, for it is not easy for me to talk to anyone and everyone, would die of this burden.