Why Friends Are Life’s Best Stress-Relievers
There are so many options in our lives, so many things happen, and nothing is ever perfect, and we always feel like we can mess something up. Then, a meeting with a friend makes us forget everything. It's a meeting over tea, where hands are playing pranks on each other. Each friend makes fun of the other. We have fun. Riding here and there, hitting each other on the bike—all these things make us forget all the tensions in life. Those two-hour meetings teach us a lot. They make us laugh. We realize that if we're with the right people, we'll forget even the worst. We'll forget the tensions within ourselves. When I sit with my friends, I forget all the tensions about how I'll study and how I'll get a job.
When all the tensions are gone, I laugh heartily for those two-three hours, and that's important too. It's important in everyone's life to meet with a friend every day, because if you don't, your life will become a first-rate one. Your mind will become a first-rate one, and when your mind becomes a first-rate one, you won't be able to concentrate on anything. Your mind will become exhausted. A lot will happen to you, so two-hour meetings are very important.
Always hang out with your best friend, because there are people who joke with you. They have tension in their lives, and you have tension in yours, too. But when you two meet, you joke with each other and make fun of each other. When they joke, and you laugh, it releases tension in our brains, which makes us smile. All the tension in our minds goes away. So, these are small things, but if we start valuing them more, many things will go away automatically, like depression and anxiety. If you live alone and go out and enjoy the company of your friends, you'll never face any such problems. I guarantee it.
Why do we call our friend a painkiller? What do they do for pain? It goes into your body and eliminates the pain, or the feeling of pain, and that's what friendship is all about. Whatever tensions you have, they come into your life. They stay in your life for two or three hours, and you have so much fun, more than you'd get from anything else. Those two or three hours, you're having so much fun, laughing so much. You guys make fun of each other. You talk over tea, and you drink tea. You guys drink tea. We talk a lot over tea; we paint the house of life on everyone's face, about how we used to do all this in our childhood. I mean, if anyone picks it up, we start making fun of it, saying how important all these things are, all these memories, about how we used to travel 10-20 km just to drink a ₹10 cup of tea. Because the tea there was famous, all these memories, and no matter how much you do anything, only the memories will be useful to you when you have a low phase in life.
If I were to talk about myself, I find spending time with my friends the best thing because it's a time when I'm stress-free. Neither doesmy family. Sometimes, I don't worry. Just enjoy the moment. And why? Because when you're in the moment, if you ask anyone how they are, everyone will say, "I'm great." But everyone's life is messed up, and everyone has their own problems. Everyone is going through some kind of trouble somewhere. But when we meet, we say, "Brother, everything is fine; everything is going well," because we don't want to stress anyone else out. Friends are those with whom you can be open and honest. When you're dealing with work, they'll help you through it. When you're facing a problem, accept it. If you're facing a financial problem, they'll help you financially. If someone else has a relationship problem, they'll help you financially.
Someone rightly said that the more time I spend with friends, the less time I have. And this is true. The more time I spend with my friends, the less time I have. My best friend knows so many things about me that my family doesn't know because he never judges me. He never looks at me that way. If I tell my parents, if I've done anything bad, I tell them. Because I have a support system. I'll have a bank of support. If I have a problem, someone should know what my problem is. So I tell him everything, and he tells me everything about himself. He told me everything about so many scandals. Because he also understands that before any exam, everything should be discussed, and that's the best thing. And you all should understand that friends are those with whom you can always share time. No matter what you do, you always have fun.
Lastly, I'll say that life will always give you pain. It will give you heartbreak, failure, and loss, but to get through all of this, you'll find a friend who will always be there for you. Whether you're right or wrong, no matter what happens. He'll always be there for you. No matter how many mistakes you make, he'll still be there for you because he considers you his brother. The truest thing about a friend is the person who becomes your friend. He will never betray you, and I like this the most because someone who betrays you isn't a friend, and the older the friendship, the more truthful the person is. I believe that if a man wants to be happy, he should be with his friend. If he's been friends with them for 10-15 years, then he's a good man because he knows how to maintain his friendship. He's a true man. A man who doesn't know how to maintain his friendship isn't a true man, in my opinion.
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