Can't friends be family?
Growing up, all we're taught is that the people around you, who are there since the beginning, are your everything. Yeah, our parents indeed are.
And they introduce us to your relatives, your uncles, aunts, some distant grandpa, and who not. You're supposed to talk to them, connect with them, stay in touch with them, because you're relatives, you're related by blood, and everyone who's not, is labelled as an outsider.
Some few outsiders are called friends. This society forces us to believe that friends can't be family, they don't resemble you, they're not related by blood to you, and all they can do is harm you, because they're outsiders, but they're one of the few who stand by you, when you're at the lowest.
You don't approach that distant uncle who meets you once in every family wedding, saying, "how tall have you grown up to be." It's your friends who you go to when you have a breakup, when you're heartbroken, when you fail in life, when you're crying at 3AMs and no one to talk to.
Friends are the family we choose. They can be harsh at times, they might be hurting you unintentionally, but there's pain in every bond, isn't it?
That doesn't mean they'd go away, or that they're here to show you the wrong path, and divert you from the ideal career options' and make you drink and smoke and do drugs.
No, real friends understand you, they'd correct you, they'd stand like a pillar when you're down, and give a hand to you, when you're in agony.
Friendship is the most underrated bond. They are there like your own, but nobody would accept that. But here's the reality, you dont need to be resembling each other to be called family. You dont need to be blood related to be calling each other family.
Friends are family, and no matter what they say,
the truth wont change.
