Childhood friendship is the most special and lasts a lifetime. The sweetness, closeness, and security you get in this friendship, you never get in any other relationship. In such a situation, it is important that your little children also make good and true friends in life.
Shreya still remembers very well the day when she dropped little Aditya to school. It was Aditya's first day of school. At the school gate, her eyes were brimming with tears. Shreya's heart was breaking. While dropping Aditya, she once felt like taking her son back, but then a little girl coming from behind grabbed Aditya's hand and said, "Come, let's both go together." Aditya's eyes sparkled and he held that girl's hand and said bye to Shreya and went to the class. That little girl had given relief to Shreya's heart. After returning home, Aditya told her many things about his new friend. He was now interested in school.
This small unimportant incident is very special if we think about it. Friendship has its importance. Friendship plays an important role in the balanced development of any child. It is often heard that childhood friendship is for life. We do not choose our relationships ourselves, because we get attached to the family in which we are born. Relationships are pre-determined, but there is only one relationship that we choose ourselves and that is friendship. There are many examples of true friendship in the Puranas, which have proved to be more important than any relationship, such as that of Shri Krishna and Sudama and Duryodhan and Karna.
Childhood friendship is like a planted plant. When we plant a small plant, it needs some friends to grow and become a strong tree, which includes sunlight from which it makes its food, water which goes into its roots and strengthens it, and fertilizer, air, etc. are necessary for its proper growth. We can say that the true friends of a plant are the sun, water, fertilizer, and air. The lack of any one of these can block its growth.
Similarly, a small child is also like this. Good and true friends play a very important role in his complete development. Most children make friends in school because they spend most of their time there. Small children do not make friends by looking at profit or loss, they make friends only for helping each other and for belongingness. Children are calm, that is why they are called the form of God. In childhood, we give importance to each other's company, and due to this a good rapport is formed. This is the reason that childhood friendship is forever.
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