Last week my friend Navtej Kohli
(we have same names) came to visit me. He was very upset, almost in
tears. After a few minutes of consoling him, he blurted out his misery.
He was diagnosed with diabetes 2. He came straight from his doctor’s
clinic to my place. He was undergoing tests from last couple of weeks
that I was not aware of, and today doctor finally diagnosed him of
diabetes. Understanding what a shock it can be, I started to talk to
him, console him hoping that what I was saying would be of help and
encouragement to him. But surprisingly, diabetes alone wasn’t the
reason of his grief.
I was stunned when he told me the reason. It was his friends, who
knowing of his ailment did not want him to come on the holiday they had
been planning. For them, he was now reduced to a sick lot that they
won’t prefer to drag along.
What an irony! When you have such friends you don’t want any enemies?
We all like to socialize, to make friends. Friends of the kind we
can share our good and bad times with. True friends are those who
accept us as we are, with our varying degrees of strengths and
weaknesses. Some of our friends will be closer to us than others. It is
during situations like this that can really be a test of friendship for
us. If they really are your friends they will be willing to sit down
with you and allow you to open your heart and speak up your troubles.
It is during such times you find out who your friends really are. As
for me, I have some great friends. We have learned to communicate well
to each other. For what I believe is friends don’t let friends go, and
if they let you go, they were never your friends.
0 Comments until now.