A friendship that remains reticent but express fairy tales within

Sangeetha Venkatesan
3 min readJul 2, 2020
Source: Internet

To my dear friend,

Hey, my dear friend! I missed wishing you on time, sorry:), I hope this one would cherish few memories that made us who we are!

It’s been more than a decade since I know you. I still remember the friendship that we made which was very secret and it was just between us. Though we spent hours of talks inside the home, the time we spent at school where we were supposedly together was very less. Sounds mysterious! Yes.

We don’t explain ourselves to anyone that we have a very good friendship that’s far bigger than what others would have thought. I still remember the times, never a single day we left the school without fighting:)

And the first call I would get on a landline is from you when I enter the home. Just to ask what was the misunderstanding! And we cut the call knowing each other and hoping not to fight the next day. But it went on loop:)

When you sit next to someone and forgot to talk with me, I have been more possessive those days. Though it’s funny now, that was a sweet pleasure to hold on.

When I come to your home, your family didn’t even give a single chance of making me feel like an outsider. They considered me one amongst them. Days were the first person in your mobile contact list was me:) Yes! It’s “ASangee”, so I come first in the list.

Your family still call me “ASangee” since the most calls you can get is from me.

We really haven't taken any selfies nor had night stays, or not even speak more about how we are feeling.

A very silent friendship that speaks wonders within!

Gradually days went, our paths began to move towards our own passion! Though there was a considerable distance amongst us, I didn’t have to feel that you forget me!

A person who I always never and ever feel hesitant to make a call is you. Even I called a number of times in a day, you picked up just to hear what I say.

You grew up as a person who is well matured and sensible to handle relationships. But there came a time where I was little taken away and started to show my fury towards you. You kept being silent and handled without hurting me.

The moment you taught how to be the one to handle those emotions sensibly with such composure. As days went, you started doing what you are ardent about and with all consistency in your designs and ideas, am astounding in proudness to see you come up as a very good illustrator.

Though I am not able to send a good gift for you today, the post I publish will always stand in my heart and so will be ‘YOU’!

This post is dedicated only to you! No matter what, I will always stand beside you and your family and remain to be one “SILENT FRIEND”

A final note, Being a person who is not very expressive of thoughts and emotions, I feel penning these emotions through words made me rethink many which I will be grateful for!

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Sangeetha Venkatesan

NLP Engineer, Language actors talking the stage with large language models!