What Is A Friend ?

Have I ever had a friend whom I would give my life for ? Hell have I ever had a friend for whom I would fight his fight and not even ask him what that fight was all about ? Id have to say NO, not that comes to mind immediately anyway. Maybe Mihir. Why not so many others ? Why not Ajay ? Or Atul ? Or Amlan ? Or Anurag ?

The only thing Mihir has different is that as a friend he is older than all of these. Did something happen between then that has changed me ? Anyway, one thing is for certain I consider Mihir to be my best friend. Why and how I don't know. It is just my intuition and instinct.

But is it cool to have just one such close friend ? Or a few close friends ? Why cant I befriend lot more people ? Why can't I make new friends ? In the genuine sense ?

Aai's 50th birthday comes up in 3 days time. We are going on a trip to Sri Lanka to mark the occasion. It is going to be a bit of an up-and-down thing for me. First, I have to fly from Chennai to Pune tomorrow, then drive up to Mumbai the next day and catch the flight to Colombo. Then I have to fly back to Mumbai next Friday, spend a couple of days at home before flying back to Chennai on the following Monday !

Well all this was necessary considering I'm not quite in a position to fly to Colombo directly from here thanks to stuff like clothes and a place for keeping valuables like my laptop.