Just like that..

In life, a few relations cannot end instantly...just like that. They need to die a slow, unnoticed death. When such a thing happens, a lot of effort goes into making the entire process look as natural and expected as possible. When does the equation of a friendship change? It might, sometimes, take a huge chain of events or sometimes, just a simple conversation. There are times in life when you feel you just might have made a mistake when it came to judging someone. They say never trust your first impressions about some one – first impressions are almost always wrong. I thought that applied only to the negative ones. Things happening over the past week made me realise that it holds even for the positive ones.

You assume that you know some one real well, but then things happen and you just end up discovering a hidden dimension to that person, which you never thought existed. You end up feeling confused at such times. You end up doubting your own discerning capability when it comes to differentiating between the good and bad ones. You end up trying to search for your mistake in the entire issue. But, do we, at these times, fail to realise that we just might have been duped into believing something? We just ended up seeing something the way we saw it, because that’s how it was intended to happen according to the other person involved? Are we ever able to trust some one again, with an open heart, as spontaneously as before? I don’t know the answers to those questions, but yeah, as far as I am concerned, I am a changed person – for good or bad, I will let time be the judge.

I learnt only one thing from the entire issue – The wise people who say "Don’t judge a book by a cover" and "Don’t believe your first impressions" are also the same people who say "Always believe your first instinct" - which brings me back to square one, all over again.