Expiry Date

It is the date before which the quality of the subject remains acceptable for its intended use.

I never expected this term to be associated with something as nice as friendship. I once thought friendship is like wine; the older it gets, the better it is.

But then again, not necessarily. Friendship could just be food. It becomes stale after a certain point of time.

The strangest thing in the above definition is the words “for its intended use”. That… I am still not able to associate with friendship. But there has to be a reason for friendship to exist. Has to be! Else why should it survive or even exist? Maybe it is the food for growth of one’s personality or life.

Everyday I see my very close friends disappear from my life… completely exit out of my life. Just makes me feel disoriented. Once upon a time a close friend told me that people come into your life for a reason, season or lifetime… I don’t believe the option exists. Friends exist either for a reason or season.

Every relationship has to reinvent itself to exist for a lifetime… it has to reinvent itself for a reason or season.



Maybe I am just spooked...