CAT & MOUSE
GIRL-FRIEND (HRITHIK’S NARRATIVE)
I had personally felt this several times that having a good friend in the opposite gender is literally a boon for a person. I as a boy, made blunders that teen guys make over in the name of relationship with a girl, and then I started learning from my very own mistakes when my friends ask for a commitment advice. In between all these betrayals and depression, Madhu was my only mental and emotional support. Every person has to have any such special ones in his/her life to support them emotionally as well as mentally. In my case, that was Madhu. She was, is, and will forever be the greatest boon I got. I and Madhu were best friends since childhood. We studied in the same class just for few years but became so close that we still are in regular contact with each other. Either she calls me and rants her problems, the fun she had, or I call her and share my experiences. She is the most selfless and humble girl I have ever come across in my life. I love talking to her, not exaggerating, I really love sharing my thoughts with her, ranting to her, and many more stuff we speak. I love her attitude and her way of interaction with people around her. Every single time she supports me emotionally, I wished I could just hug her, cry, and thank her as loudly as possible, for being with me in my ups and downs. I still call her the same way I call my male friends with the word ‘Machan!’. She was the one who initiated that.
The extent to which she is funny, caring and wholesome, is the exact same when it comes to being strict. I and she are like mutual consolers for each other, but at times when I don’t follow what Madhu instructed me to, she becomes the most adamant and strict person. If she decides to not to speak with me, she for sure will never speak with me again. But I can’t exist without speaking with her, so I always follow what she says. Sometimes, I have genuinely felt and imagined of what if Madhu was my life partner, forever, but that doesn’t make sense and justice to our friendship what we have been maintaining constantly for all these years. I wanted her to just be my friend since I had a fear of losing her if the relationship exceeds beyond the line of friendship. In an era of red roses and proposals, I wanted her to be my ever supporting and charming friend. Her greatest sign of caring that I personally have noticed is that she handles my mood swings so well and I do the same with her. She is just angelic. If I had to describe her through words, then pages won’t be enough for me. Even she made mistakes in terms of the relationship with a boy she had, but she is quite mature, so she moved on her own and on her will power. But I was not such kind of a person. I took every betrayal that happened to me personally.
I used to lock up myself in room, put off the lights, close all the windows, and cried a lot. I wasn’t able to easily overcome the pain I went through. The biggest blunder I made was that getting strongly attached to another girl immediately after my first relationship broke. Her name was Harini. She was another nightmare I had. At the time when my first relation went off, there was no one to support me mentally. Of course, Madhu did support me, but that didn’t get me out of the depression I had. I got more depressed when my best friend Vijay suddenly stopped talking to me. He was another person who supported me like Madhu. Due to all these stuffs, I got into a hell of depression, and at that time, Harini, who always had a crush on me since childhood, consoled me, and stood with my downs a lot.
We literally got into a relationship, but she too, in spite of knowing what all I came through, ruthlessly betrayed me. Her betrayal had a very large impact on my mental health. I literally forgot to smile, to feel, I was just like a stone. Madhu really got so mad after knowing all these and shouted at me like anything, and instructed me to not to speak to Harini anymore. Madhu somehow managed to get me out of all the depression and confusions I had. This was the point at which I started admiring Madhu a lot, and decided that I would never ever lose her for my silly mistakes. I always felt that I am really lucky to have Madhu in my life, because most of my friends have been jealous of me for having such a friend. I rant all my points of happiness and depression only to Madhu and Vijay. Whenever I tell him anything about Madhu, he just used to say a single phrase that “You are lucky enough to get an angelic girl like her”, and this phrase of him, brought up a blush on my face.
Fun fact is that Vijay had a crush on Madhu during the first year of our college life and tried to speak to her. This felt somewhat being mean to a girl for him and totally reduced the content of speaking with her. But he still admires Madhu, and feels bad that he didn’t have a friend like her from the opposite gender. I just tell a very little about her, but he, based on his personal observation, and for the respect he had on her, wanted to write about her. So, he just took a small piece of paper, wrote about her in my perspective, and presented it to her.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands, and things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend like her. I honestly don’t know what would I do without her. I am really lucky to have her. Thank you for being with me, Madhuu!
