Ajitha Amarnath's Blog: AMARANTHINE THOUGHTS - Posts Tagged "newagefriendships"

The new age friendships... we have actually messed it all up with social media. Everyone thinks they know everything about each other, seeing the posts shared through Facebook or Instagram...so there is literally nothing much anyone asks of or shares when they meet each other. The first few days after joining any new WhatsApp group is like a dream come true. All are so excited to get everyone together in one virtual place. Initially, everyone starts to chat and nobody listens. Every member discusses everything from the time one left school, college or the workplace within a week or two. After some days, few keep chatting and a few keep listening. After some more days, one or two alone continue chatting and the rest continue listening, after that everyone listens and there is nobody to chat. Later, once in a while we wish someone or the other on their birthdays and wedding anniversaries. Then some more days and years pass by, some keep forwarding everything they receive to the group, just to make-believe that the group is active. After being stuck long in a cold, silent and inactive group, a time comes when you wonder though everyone are your one time close friends what you are experiencing is not friendship and you plan ways and means to exit just the group. After much waiting, one fine day you finally exit the group, and all your friends who were until then too busy to even reply to your posts and messages suddenly find time to call, message and enquire about your reasons for exiting the friend group. They even wrongly assume things. They try to add you back to the group, as being just a group member is the epitome of friendship nowadays. You suffocate with this new idea of friendship; you get restless and you exit again at the next quickest opportunity and from then on your life takes a new turn… your life becomes much peaceful and happier than ever before! This isn’t what genuine friendships once used to be… one never needed to seek its presence in one’s life… sadly, we have lost it all with this new age technology.

Every friend in need is ‘at your fingertips’ but not the same friendship indeed. But, thanks to a handful of friendships that have withstood all these challenges and still continue to give their true essence in just the way they used to be from the beginning. Those are the few genuine friendships that I always hold close and would never ever give up on. 😍💖🌹✨
Every day is a Friendship Day!
Ajitha Amarnath © 2021.

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