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I have met a couple of people in life who have no friends. No “chronic” friends circles that is. And most of them seem very contended and self sufficient. I have always wondered how they manage to occupy the pockets of free time when just need to do something. A good example would be my friend, Tok. He once famously remarked, “It’s ok, i don’t need anything or anyone around, i can be perfect being all alone”.

I dedicate this article to his line.

Its not until a couple of Teh-Gajah on the rocks and mint-apple flavoured Sheesha smoking with these people with no friends, that you realise, they are actually very lonely people, totally inept socially and the only wisdom you can derive from them would be platitudes. Their lives would be filled with single oriented activities like solo movie marathons, a motorbike with one seat, a marathon with one participant and etc.

So to these people here’s a newsflash.

Friends are the DNA of society. They are the basic building blocks of life. If you have a couple of good ones, treasure them like gold. There’s nothing better. Ever look at those social message driven advertisements where they have, “Friends and Family”? Who do they mention first? Your friends help you carry the big weight in life. That big burden we’ve all got called, “What the hell am I doing?”. It’s a fine line to walk i suppose, keeping the good ones and weeding out the not so good ones.

But like all of life’s dual personae, there are certain friends in your life that you don’t really need but who are always your friends and you just have to accept it. You see them even though you don’t really want to see them. You don’t call them, they call you. You don’t call back, they call again. You’re late, they wait. You don’t show up, they’re not upset. You try and stab them, they understand. You poison them, they have an antidote ready. You ask them for 10 bucks they give you 20. They are the unwanted friends. If they are so good, why don’t we all try to be like them? I think the biggest difference between everything else and humans is this. Humans have unwanted friends. Everything else doesn’t.

Recently i tried to be an unwanted friend to someone. I was trying to force likeability i think. Like many of you may know, my brain is a scary being, which has its own personality. It’s a strong supporter of Ronald Regan, on and off screen. It’s crazily frightful and very intelligent. It pulls all the strings to my existence and keeps me on a leash. A tight leash, that often chokes me and puts me on my knees. I think my brain detected i was becoming a unwanted friend and made me write this article to jolt me back to reality.

Well, I’m back here again and not going anywhere for a while.

Cheers.
ps: More on my brain here.