The Words with Wings

 I can bet that half of you ignored the 's' after "Best friend" in the title. That's okay because when most of us think about "Best friends", we usually refer to just one person. But I believe that we can have many best friends, each with a different sense of excitement, humor, advice, and craziness. I'm going to describe what I'm saying here by talking about my best friends. The Long-Distance best friend: This is the one who I've known from school. She changed school and shifted to Sri Lanka, because of her dad's job in the tenth standard. She moved away and we hardly meet, probably once in two to three years, but our friendship has grown ever since. We share everything over a call and we know all of each other's friends and secret crushes. Our parents say that we are sisters from different mothers. So, in short, it's like an ideal yet virtual friendship. The school best friend who's always been there with you: We've know...

 We, as humans, tend to expect certain things out of everything, be it a new food item or any of our relationships. These expectations are of two kinds. The first kind is where you, kind of, know that you are expecting something specific like if you have a close friend, the last thing you expect from them is to wish you on your birthday. The other kind is when you subconsciously have certain suppositions in your mind but are not aware of them. These are the ones that might cause everyone a bit of trouble. Let me try to give an example of that second kind. So, all through our life, we keep meeting new people and often get attached to them. Remember in elementary school, when you were a friend of all those who commuted in the same school bus? They all seemed so close to us at that stage in life but as we grew, we kept meeting new people, sometimes even forgetting the old ones. We connect to a lot of people in our school life and since most of us usually spend a good deal of time in a...