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Silences

“May 15 would be your last working day” As I heard
these lines the world beneath me started to fade

away, for a while my brain went numb as I tried to

process the zillions of memories that I had made in
the past 4 years in a new city with new people.

"Friends" is the one part of my university life that I

will remember for the rest of my life. I met
Nikhil Sharma thousands of people at that university, I must have
2019-23 Mech spoken with hundreds of them, and many of them

would be my so-called friends. But you know there are a few people that I met
who are really special to me, they understand me better than my family, know

me probably more than myself. But how do I define these people? We have all

these people in our lives, while I speak of them, you might remember some
names in your mind. Is that who we spend the most time with? Is that where

we had the most fun? The ones we shared most of our secrets with? Are those

the people we've spoken to the most? I certainly believe not; these people
might fall into one or more of these categories

but this isn’t why they’re special to us. We all

value conversations a lot, the people we

generally spend our time talking with turn out
to be our favourite buddies, we believe that they

are the ones who’ll hold our back when we’re

down. But I believe that the best of friends is

the ones who can enjoy and feel the silences
with me, that one person who need not hear

everything, who is not necessitous of words to

understand me. As the leaves need not talk with the roots and bees don’t have
to speak to the petals but they still share a bond and one that makes their

lives much more beautiful.

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