Have you experienced what happens when you touch the paras pathar or soccer's stone? Your life seems like a dream and it becomes a blessed one. That's what happened to me when I was in high school and met him the first time. It started with teasing and small fights but gradually we became friends and by the time we reached college, we were best friends.

I had never experienced something that beautiful and selfless in my life.

We had such an understanding that we didn't need many words to understand each other. It was mutual and magical and we were just friends. A friend who is there to wish you on your birthday, a friend who is there to take you out each valentine's day. A friend who cries on your shoulder while he's marrying his sister off. A friend who knows you in and out and is still just a  friend. A friend whose every relationship is important for you, whose girlfriend becomes your friend and you still don't envy her. A friend whom you are proud of, who can understand your silence the same way you understand him but still just a friend. 

I cherished his friendship till long and then a time came when he moved to another city and our talks became less frequent and it created little distance between us but still, we were best of friends. This distance gave me an opportunity to look around and beyond him. But I was looking for him only in everyone I met or trying to find the same chemistry that we had developed over the years.

Somebody special entered my life then and we dated, we became close and decided to get married. We didn't have that chemistry but had a spark and I thought with time we'd be able to have that chemistry, we would be the best of friends rather than being man and woman.

He came to my wedding, laughing, giggling and I was blushing and was on cloud nine to see him. That day changed my life. I left lots of things behind and entered into a new phase of life that was unpredictable, and had its own ups and downs.

I feel I had experienced a lot of pain already, setbacks were there all along during this time because my husband and I were never together. We were just man and woman, and he was more of a mamma's boy and I was more of a rebellious girl. We never shared our pains, our sweet and happy moments were a handful. Even our special moments were turned into pain and something we never wanted to think about whereas with my friend, even small normal things used to turned into special moments. But still, he was just a friend of mine.

Today, when he is far and settled, I ask myself why didn't we ever take our friendship to the next level? 

Why didn't I ever acknowledge that I shared a special relationship with him where we were there for each other, we had all the time in the world for each other. I think I never had the guts to say that and I was scared that I'd lose him if he had some other thoughts and most importantly, I was scared that our equation will change. We'd have started taking each other for granted , we would start acting out and would be just like any other couple. 

And what made me realize that was this sweet little video that I had recently seen on Youtube and it's a dedication to our friendship and all other friendships like ours.

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