Good and Bad times

It is said that it is easy to find people to share joy than to share sorrow. So, generally when we are in a neutral or happy mood, we are surrounded by a bunch of people. The size and constituents of the bunch may keep varying but you will almost always be able to find such a bunch. There are people who make you laugh, who accompany you in parties, who dance with you, sing along or generally hang out. In good times, you pick and choose people you want to be; those that make your experience the best.

But good times may not last for long. At the first stroke of sorrow, your accomplices support you at the start. But then two things happen: they start to taper off or you do not find yourself in a position to ask them to stay for long. At that instant, either you want to be alone or you want to be with someone with whom you can behave in any fashion and can expect whatever comes to your mind. This person would be willing to listen to you for hours together, would not mind any of your actions etc. So, in bad times, you again pick and choose but the choices may be too limited to be actually called one.

Firstly, it is very difficult to find such a person. If I think how many people belong to this category (apart from family), I can count them on my fingers. Sadly I am not even able to go to my second hand. But the amazing part is even though you have so few of them, you take them for granted. So, usually, when the going is good, you are not very much concerned about them. You consider these people as one of the many who you want to be with, if not below in your priority list. You forget what they have done for you and the fact that you would not have been in this position, had it not been for them.

Even after all this, the best part is, these people have not gone anywhere. So, the next time you are in grief, they are still there, ready as ever to do what they do best. If that was not enough, they are unconcerned to the core for what you did or things you should have done. They did not expect those things to happen anyways. I wonder what these people do to be like they are.