Side effects of true friendship

 Side effects of true friendship 

Just a humorous note 🙏

( Not a preachy stuff intended)

I used to stay alone in a small room in Maharashtra ( a small town) for 9 years.

Being a bachelor then, the infrastructure for cooking was bare minimum. 

Ironically, about 8 of my close friends ‘demand’  for a lunch, prepared by me. A very cumbersome task with just a small kerosene stove and two vessels 😓. Cook in installments, pour the dish onto a corner of a large plate, heaped, to have space for the next 3 installments!

Only one fellow ‘bothered’ to come an hour early, to help me😥

The pleasure i derive lasts only for 15 minutes, watching them pounce upon the food to gobble it , whereas my labour is for 2½ hours preceding it 😓

I didn't mind the effort.

6 of them were very rich. Watching them ‘adjusting’ with gross inadequacies of space, cutlery, etc… so effortlessly was a source of amazement for me, afresh each time 😳

Once, they mocked at a fellow. I didn't know that he was so_fussy at his home while dining🙏😥. They said “ look at this fellow! At home, he hurls a glass tumbler of water,  to pieces, if a water drop is seen sticking to the upper edge of its inner side, and here, he quietly pecks at food from a inside of pressure cooker’s lid, parking only ½ of his bottom on a shared steel chair, happily licking his fingers to swallow the last bit of food 😜”( this guy is the youngest child with 5 sisters elder to him. Too pampered. 

I was amazed at the total contrast in him, when he eats in my room, thrice in every 2 months! 

Stubborn, rigid and resistance_filled fellow, displaying unusual flexibility, just to be a ‘part’ of a gang of friends, and to soak into the joyousness of an ambience of ‘unconditional togetherness’ !!!🙏😥😥😳😳😳

These visuals served “in good stead” 15 years later, during a residential spiritual program 😜…  i just had to ‘tap’ the innate+latent flexibility in me🙏. The discipline of the structured program, could cause no ‘discomfort’ to me. I just looked at spiritual bijness as a ‘dear friend’ who can't afford a comfort zone 🙏. His(spirituality personified) friendship is all that mattered for me 🙏

Discomfortingly yours,

psn(7 june, 2026)