Hydrocarbonman

  This Is What It’s Like To Have A True ‘Best Friend’ Is there some mythical notion that we want to suggest that we have the right person in elementary or high school? Have we won a prize? Will anyone ever get the perfect thing? Both these questions have been answered in reality yes. Yet this story has even more. As well as me, my closest friend knows me—sometimes better. he's got far other personal mates and I've got some too. However, if anyone asked me who my best friend was right now, he would probably nail it. My best friend got me out of the pit of depression while nobody else was watching. My best friend's been hugging me all night as my heart burst and my pride broken. In the wake of a crippling heartbreak, my closest friend cradled me. My best buddy was a heck of a lot more than just a friend. She was a sister, a husband, a roommate, a maternal figure and—sometimes—an adversary. You told me the truth when I didn't like it. When I was stubborn, she screamed...

It’s a delicate thing. We thought our dog was eight years old — or maybe we wanted her to be eight years old, which isn’t exactly like being a puppy, but feels like the solid if slightly overripe prime of life, when the dog and you know each other’s habits inside out, and you walk together when you want, and if you’re feeling lazy, the dog is happy to just hang out and pretend you both did some exercise and are now enjoying its pleasant aftermath. But we were lying to ourselves. She’s eleven. That’s a far cry from eight for a dog, really, and there are mornings these days when she wants to sleep in, and afternoons when she wants to sleep in, and she has started eyeing stairs with reluctance. On occasion, she’s creaky and slow to unhinge her hips when she gets up. There is nothing crueler than the fact human and animal lifespans are so out of synch. I would have been happy to have one dog for my entire life, absolutely content. Variety is very appealing in certain aspects of existence, ...

पिता_पुत्र_का_अनोखा_रिश्ता भारतीय पिता पुत्र की जोड़ी भी बड़ी कमाल की जोड़ी होती है । दुनिया के किसी भी सम्बन्ध में, अगर सबसे कम बोल-चाल है, तो वो है पिता_पुत्र की जोड़ी में । एक समय तक दोनों अंजान होते हैं एक दूसरे के बढ़ते शरीरों की उम्र से फिर धीरे से अहसास होता है हमेशा के लिए बिछड़ने का । जब लड़का, अपनी जवानी पार कर अगले पड़ाव पर चढ़ता है तो यहाँ इशारों से बाते होने लगती हैं या फिर इनके बीच मध्यस्थ का दायित्व निभाने वाली माँ के माध्यम से । पिता अक्सर उसकी माँ से कहा करते हैं जा "उससे कह देना" और पुत्र अक्सर अपनी माँ से कहा करता है, पापा से पूछ लो ना" इसी दोनों दूरियों के बीच घूमती रहती है माँ । जब एक कहीं होता है तो दूसरा नहीं होने की कोशिश करता है, शायद पिता-पुत्र नज़दीकी से डरते हैं । जबकि वो डर नज़दीकी का नहीं है, डर है उसके बाद बिछड़ने का । पिता ने शायद ही किसी बेटे को कहा हो कि बेटा मैं तुमसे बेइंतहा प्यार करता हूँ । पिता की अनंत गालियों का उत्तराधिकारी भी वही होता है, क्योंकि पिता हर पल ज़िन्दगी में अपने बेटे को अभिमन्यु सा पाता है । पिता समझता है, कि इसे सम्भलना होगा, इस...