Navtej Kohli Interest Blog

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.