Companion

As a child, I always wanted a friend who would be by my side through all my thick and thin, who would be there to listen to all of my pains and who would rejoice in all of my happiness and successes. I always searched for that friend in every people I met.

As a teenager, I used to search for a lover who would rescue me from all the mishaps of my life and would never leave my side. Someone who would always support me, cheer me up. Someone who would stand by me in the times I fail & would celebrate my success with me. 

As a child and adolescent, being highly fond of movies... I was always conditioned to believe that there is someone out there who would rescue me and be the saviour of my life. Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I kept on searching and waiting for that one companion who would come into my life and take away all the sadness from my life and fill it up with happiness. 

It was only until I reached my 20s that I realized that, throughout all these years, the person I was searching for in the outside world, was never actually to be found outwards.....but by looking inwards. That person was residing within me. I was the greatest companion I had by my side throughout all these years. 

Most of the times, we look outwards to find that one person who would listen to us or that one shoulder to cry upon or that one person who would understand my struggle and be the happiest in my success. While friends & dear ones, do understand us to a certain level, they can show empathy during our sad times... but no one can ever feel the situations or phases of our life in the same way as we felt when we faced a certain situation or went through a certain phase. We get different companions at different phases of life... each companion knowing a different version of us. But, the only companion who knows us entirely is ourselves. And, the only companion who stays forever and the one we need by our side to keep moving through the journey of life is ourselves.