{"id":2615,"date":"2017-12-03T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T03:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T05:37:44","slug":"random-thoughts-few-such-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/random-thoughts-few-such-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: Few Such Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2616\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/friends.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/friends-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/friends-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/friends-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/friends-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything in life is temporary and as we grow older we tend to realize this even more. The school friend of mine whose lunch box used to be opened by all of us soon after he entered our class has disappeared,\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know if he is alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I am 32 now and as I moved out of my hometown for higher studies &amp; later for work <em>{stayed in 4-5 cities so far &amp; don&#8217;t ask me about number of jobs I switched}<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I kept meeting new people and made new friends too. I don&#8217;t know how many friends I have, it is hard to count honestly. But one thing I am totally aware of is that I have few close friends.. \u00a0They\u2019re as close to me as I am close to them. They are the ones who never judge me for what I am. I don&#8217;t have to dress up or down \u00a0because neither will be a turnoff for them. These friends know all my secrets {not all of them good}. They will be the ones who will attend my funeral <em>{If I happen to die before them \ud83d\ude00 }<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel lucky &amp; blessed to have such friends. I can count them on my fingers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many such friends do you have?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in life is temporary and as we grow older we tend to realize this even more. The school friend of mine whose lunch box used to be opened by all of us soon after he entered our class has disappeared,\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know if he is alive. I am 32 now and as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/random-thoughts-few-such-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Thoughts: Few Such Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[347,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}