Effort

Everyday without realising it, we are constantly doing stuff, which either don’t matter to us or really affect us directly. Be it mundane, redundant or useful things that we do, it all requires effort to make it happen. We won’t pass our exams if we don’t study. We won’t improve if we don’t practice. Putting in that extra effort could determine an A grade to a B grade. An amateur player to a professional star. All it needs is effort and the willingness to sacrifice a certain degree of your time.

Keeping a friendship going also requires a lot of effort. As long as at least one party makes the effort to keep in touch, I believe the friendship won’t die and you won’t end up as strangers when you were once close friends. I was reading an article in the papers about this guy who died in a canal in the UK and one of his friend actually wrote something that went like "…I know I’d promised to keep in contact with you, but I never did. I’m sorry."

Isn’t it a scary thought that one day, this friend is up and alive and the next moment he’s gone from the face of the earth just like that? No more means of contacting him, nothing. Are we such slaves to our work that is keeping us busy half the time, to not even spare a few minutes "keeping in touch" with our friends? Or do we think that we are so damn freaking popular to not ask how our friends are doing but instead they are the ones who should come up and ask us instead?

All I’m trying to say is, make an effort to stay in contact with those who are close and are dear to us. I’m not saying that we should know every single detail of their lives down to the very seconds, but at least just know what is going on with their lives and be kept in the loop. No doubt it is a tiring process if we keep doing it again and again but think about it. Would we rather do that OR regret it one day when things do happen and say, "I’m sorry" to someone who could have once stood in front of us, but now remain an imaginary figure.