“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
— Winnie the Pooh
Friendship Day, a day celebrated to honour our friends, showcase our love for them, and most of all, make them feel special. A day that has many memories tied to it and many yet to be lived.
A lot of people come into our lives and stay or leave for better or for worse. Some stay but do not make a difference, others leave for good and then there are those who mean the world to us and are present through every thick and thin of our lives. These precious people are called friends.
While they can be mischievous, can make us feel bad at times and may even get on our nerves, they'll always stand by us when we're at our lowest and need all the love and support. Needless to say, they're someone with whom we would always celebrate our achievements and successes with. That said, a good friend will also help you through your failures and try their best to lift you up.
𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏
Friendship Day is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of August. It is a special occasion which celebrates the ties of friendship and precious bonds of togetherness between people. This year, it will be celebrated on August 1 in India. It is also celebrated on July 30 in several other parts of the world.
𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲
The friendship day first started in Paraguay in 1958 by Dr. Ramon Artemio Bracho having dinner with his friends in Puerto Pinasco, a town on the River Paraguay. So on this day, the World Friendship Crusade was born and the beginning of International Friendship Day. The founder of Hallmark cards, Joyce Hall, in 1930 proposed a day when people should celebrate friendship. Initially, friendship day was celebrated by sharing greeting cards. But in this century of the digital world, it is possible to send a text message, video, and images related to friendship. Day. In 1998, the United Nations named Winnie the Pooh as the World Ambassador for Friendship. Previously, the Friendship band was really popular in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and parts of South America.
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞
The day for friendship day varies from country to country. In India, it is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month of August and, luckily, this year the date falls on August 1.
𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
Friendship is one of the most blissful relationships a person shares with another person; the association works as a strength developer in an individual’s life. The thing about friendship that sets it apart from all other relationships is that it is pure and divine, and surpasses barriers of race, colour, caste and creed.
Friendship plays a vital role, as the remarkable bond brings delight and sustenance in life, in the form of hope, happiness, and abundance. Though friendships cannot be summarised or celebrated by a day’s observance, it is impetus enough to reach out to a pal with whom you may not have spoken in a long time, only to relive and rekindle the love and attachment. Friendship Day promotes the role of friends in life. A friend is a person that you can always rely on and is considered as closest to you. Someone trustworthy, genuine and accepts you for who you are.
According to the Bible, friendship is a bond of human faith, trust, and companionship. Even the importance of friendship is mentioned in the famous Hindu epic Mahabharata. Lord Krishna showed several roles of friendship whether of romance, brotherhood, protection, teasing, etc.
This day is marked as the journey of being strangers to nurturing an inseparable bond like friendship.
𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞
• To have friends is equally important to have a family. That is why it is said that "Friends are the family we choose ourselves".
• No doubt good friends or real friends provide us emotional support, help us, guide us, and support us whenever we need it.
• During childhood days, friendship helps us to understand and develop the habit of caring and sharing.
• Friend remains with us in hardships or difficult times and makes us feel special.
• During childhood days, friendship helps us to understand and develop the habit of caring and sharing.
• It is also said that friends are important for proper growth and development. Children learn and play together with friends.
During our teenage, we go through several changes like physical, emotional, and mental. Sometimes we aren't able to share our problems with parents but we share them with our friends. Isn’t it! To have a true friend, who listens to you and provides support, guidance at this age is a real gift. It is not only in teenage or childhood age to have friends are important. Even friends are equally important in old age. In the concept of the nuclear family sometimes couples may feel lonely so if they have friends around them life remains joyful and interesting.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐲
• Get in contact with your buddies for a chat or a video call meet.
• Accept an invitation to meet new people. You might make life-long friendships you didn’t know could exist.
• Share a memory with old friends to spark a fun conversation.
• Tell your friends how much you appreciate them.
• Challenge your circle of friends to share an experience they think none of your other friends have had. You’ll discover new things about your friends and find out just how unique each of them is.
• Send or mail a card to your friend (It was the original goal of the day).
• Post on social media using #NationalFriendshipDay or #FriendshipDay to encourage others to connect with each other.
𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫'𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬
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"On this Friendship Day keep in mind the power of your smile, it is the first step in making new friends."
Happy Friendship Day to all my friends.
Stay safe and happy always!
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