Friendship Day is totally dedicated to friends. We spend the whole day together, savoring our memories, having fun, sharing cards, giving and receiving love, and everything that’s good in a relationship. I tell you, it is the most beautiful day of the year, for on that day you get an opportunity to cherish a relationship, which we so rarely do when we thoughtlessly follow our daily routine.

The cards we share on Friendship Day are painstakingly prepared paper cards which are full of words straight from out hearts. These cards are inevitably kept by the recipient as personal treasure. They are the source of inspiration and strength for whenever we are apart. For example, whenever I feel alone, I only have to open one of these cards and my spirit immediately begins to soar with the eagles. For very special friends, just one card is not enough, so then we give two or three or more…

We take for granted our best friends because they are always with us. They become part of our everyday routine. But Friendship Day reminds us how very special our friends are to us. It makes us wonder what it would be like if these friends were not there for us. We catch ourselves wondering how much we would miss them. This simple thought causes the fountain of love to flow and we reach for the heavens.

Can you imagine yourself and your friends standing together, hand in hand, enjoying a bond that can never be broken?

When I think about it, it feels as though my friends and I form a very special tree. But there is one way in which this friendship is very different from a natural tree. In a natural tree, according to the seasons, leaves whither and die, then fall off, never to be part of the tree again. However, in a friendship tree, the leaves never leave the branch. On the contrary, the bond between the leaves and the tree becomes stronger and stronger as time passes, until it is impossible to sever them.

This is the true magic of friendship!

- Rohan Kaikini 
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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