It has been always fascinating to
write about people and their ways of doing things. Let me not put it as
‘characters’ because it is annoying and uneasy to hear it in a ‘humane’
perspective. As this humane relationship ‘humane’ as we call friendship is a little
bit misjudged (god knows why). My version of the story is it is a little bit
misunderstood in our way of life, the Bhutanese way for that matter, at least.
It has remained a custom to nag, tease, make fun of, sometimes insult and
downgrade our company in the midst of friends commonly termed ‘circle of
friends’. Well that’s the bottom line of all human becoming friends. It has
also been the custom to share to ‘another’ being about the friend you are close
to about his(her) likes and dislikes to ‘create an impression about oneself’ in
the eyes of another. This comes at a cost of down grading one to achieve the
height of prestige, the other tries to achieve. I ‘f……..’ don’t understand this
but this has been the Bhutanese norm of the so called, the cliché “FRIENDSHIP”.
It would mean, when people are on
one side and you on the other, it would be a ‘Universal deceit’ as George Orwell put in his book, “1984”. Further
airtel jingles puts it this way, “waise har
ek friend zaroori hota hai”. Now as I write this piece, I lost a couple of
my good friends just because of the aforementioned cause or you may like to
call it the ‘causes’. As long as there is a bone, noses will be there to smell
it, the old Bhutanese maxim reads!
Good luck, now go haunt your
buddies!
Lobzangn.
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