Does everything have to have an agenda behind it, even if it’s just a simple praise? Have we actually become non-believers?
Can we simply be friends? Friends in the true form, not friends because we can benefit from who we know or what we do. Just friends because we love each other for just being the person who we are. Isn’t that possible? And if some friendships are like that, why is it so unbelievable? Well, I guess, unfortunately, we live in a world that’s so driven by selfish motives that it seems like a strange concept now. Everything seems to be give and take and gains and profits. I totally get that, and I don’t blame it either. Our world has gone cuckoo crazy, but then isn’t it sad if we somewhere stop believing in real friendships, just simple ones.
I recently saw a pre-release screening of the movie Neerja produced by my friends (Shanti Shivaram and Atul Kasbekar) and I truly loved it and thought Sonam Kapoor was brilliant in it. Also, it was very well produced and directed beautifully, so I wrote about the film on my social media page about how I loved the film and about the fact that I am so proud of my friends, who I have seen work very hard to put the film together. I was amazed when a common friend, of course, messaged me saying “nice move dude, the next job in your bag”. I was amazed because I didn’t know I made a “move”. All I did was praise a film my friends made that I truly enjoyed, that’s all, but turns out, my praise had more political value than I knew. It made me a little bit sad and also made me wonder why is it so unbelievable that someone can say something nice about someone without expecting anything in return. Does everything have to have an agenda behind it, even if it’s just a simple praise? Have we actually become non-believers?
I understand it’s a crazy competitive world, I guess people are desperate to make the right kind of powerful friends for the so-called right reasons to push their agendas in life driven by ambition or whatever but what if some of us don’t care about making the right friends for the “right” reason, making the so-called “right” moves for the next job and next promotion, the next gain, the next deal. What if all we want is to live in jungles and mountains and beaches all over the world and not care bout how fancy ass or powerful our friends are in their work world and what they can get us. What if all we care about is meeting the people we simply love, get drunk with them, go dancing on bar tops and discuss random funny shit and that’s it. Is it so unbelievable to imagine something like that? And if it is, then I feel sad for the people that can’t because there’s an actual big lovely world full of wonderful people that you could be friends with, without thinking of gains and strategies and all that. So maybe start believing in the crazy little thing called friends without benefits ...
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