STRIVE TO BE BETTER!

Have you ever felt let down or actually let down a close friend? Am talking about the kind of friend you'd "take a bullet or catch a grenade for". Made or received an empty blank promise void of any sign of actualization. Fucked up in such a proportional way that you couldn't bear to look back at yourself in the mirror. Mistakes may be of varying extremities, from innocently forgetting your best friend's birthday to biblical abominations like "slicing" your best friend ( masticks). Someone i consider wise once told me that friends and family are a reflection of both what we are and what we have in this world. Friends psych us up (chocha), console us, persevere our tantrums, distract us from the harsh/scorching reality that we don't want to face and of course support our uncannily stupid ideas at their own risk. Thus we should never take them for granted.
Its easy to forget the little things that make life worth living, the same little things that wouldn't be possible without friends or family, the warm sense of safety they ooze, the selfless way in which they extend an olive branch in our hour of need, the simple self assuring way in which they tell us "everything is going to be okay" especially when everything seems bleak. Again i repeat, we should never take friends and family for granted.
When was the last time you told them (you know  who :-)  ) that you love them, appreciate them, value them, treasure them or even did something special for/to them to make them believe that indeed you are grateful for their presence in your life. Surprisingly, the grievous purely unintentional mistake that most of us (you and me) usually make is to assume that the other party somehow subconsciously knows how we feel about them. We think being sentimental is overrated or its a sign of weakness hence we are left to silently hope that they will figure out on their own, luckily some eventually do, what of the others who don't?. Love is like a puzzle to us, hidden under layer after layer of  silent, subtle actions.
Take time to show love when need arises, apologize when you are on the wrong and most importantly try your best to be the best you possibly can. Truthfully this particular article was inspired by a close friend of mine (iza mel.B*). Cheers to putting pride aside and trying to be better friends!!