My Jewels | Creative Nonfiction

The tag 'friend' is widely used but how many of them truly hold the value of a friend is a question but trust me I can relate that value around me, not many in numbers but only a few which means thousands of times better than the fake ones.

📸 roya ann miller

It was 2018, and I was mentally down and that was hampering my physical condition too. Something terrible happened, everything was dark around me, and I was clueless about what to do next, and what should be my next move. Even that situation could have led me to suicidal tendencies but fortunately someone stood beside me. Started to heal me, I was afraid to step into the same phase again, was afraid to be broken but that person didn't leave my side, stood beside me almost like a guardian angel. Surprisingly that guardian angel is still beside me, and didn't leave my side, now even closer than before, melting my heart that was turned into a stone, slowly I am starting to bloom again. What more can you ask from a friend? Isn’t it the best virtue you can expect who will be able to heal, care, and make you alive again?

It's always your bad time when you get to find your actual friends. It was 202, when I faced one of my difficult times, my mother was sick and hospitalised, I had to run here and there continuously. At that moment, I got to know a few friends too. Not that I was in need of their help desperately but it still matters. It used to bug me, used to pinch me that where are they about whom I cared so much but aren't around me on my down times. One was there, calling me three times a day to ask about the ongoing situation, asking me to take his aid whenever I needed even if it was very tiny. Actually, it wasn’t the help he was capable of but it was the willingness that he showed which strengthened my willpower to cope with the situation twice more as I knew someone is there whom I can ask for help without any hesitation even if it was midnight. Isn't this what friendship actually is? If not then what's left there? Please enlighten me.

To me, friendship is the rush of people where everyone is in a hurry with themselves but still you would see some hands holding and guiding you even in such a mess. Oh yeah, I met such a rush over and over again, funneled most of them, and only a few left. The biggest cutoff was done in 2019 when I faced the biggest stumble in my academic career, scars that are still visible to me. Many of us stumbled and many got past that situation, with time their behavior also started to change. As we all know, 'Change is life, change is progress.' so they were changing too because of the progress where I wasn’t included, felt like I was left out and so did I consoled myself with whatever I was left behind. And trust me, those gems I mentioned above were more than enough for me to stay strong and move forward even stronger.

Short and precise because no matter how long I try to describe it will be nowhere close to defining the friendship value I got to cherish. So if you are interested to write on this week's Nonfiction Creative writing prompt theme of friends then go through the Announcement Post and jump in the ride, its very enjoyable .