We have habit of calling each and everyone who has entered our life as friends but are they really friends or just acquaintance?

Dictionary meaning of friends is – a person you know well and regard with affection and trust. A person with whom who share a common interest or person with whom you spend your free time. Whereas acquaintance are people whom you met for short period of time. You associate with them when for a short period of time, in nutshell, a relationship less intimate than friendship.

Some of us also call few of our friends as best friends, treating them as if they are your brother or sister. This relation are stronger than relation between brother/sister. They are the one who will stand by us when we are in happiness, sadness or troubled time.

One of my teacher told me once that real friend you make will be in schools or college, once you are out of it you will never find real friend. All people after that phase of your life will be acquaintance. People you meet in your work place or people you meet in workshop or training or so on. Soon I realised that he was 100% right. We delude ourselves in thinking that those people are our friends, but reality strikes back and you see the truth. All those laugh, all those stories, all those memories are temporary shadowed by another memories and another and another making it a distance or short lived story.

In life it might be easy to meet acquaintance but difficult to convert them into friends. Especially when our life is surrounded by rat race, stress, workload, too many commitment and this list is endless. We are living a lifestyle where we don’t have time for ourselves, removing time for friends is difficult task.

Even if friendship is there, small thing like ego can break it. It is said that in friendship there should not be ego else you will start judging each and very action of a person. And miss who stand under our head can make situation worst. But if that friend is real a friend than friendship will stay and miss will go but if they were acquaintance then there was nothing like friendship which broke apart.

Whether it is real or reel friends, friendship is overrated. Sooner we realise who is friend and who acquaintance better it will be for us. Else we will spend our time behind acquaintance and ignore people who are friend.