Some People, WEIRD!!

Recently came across a mail in my inbox categorizing people distinctly under three headings. The headings were “Reason”, “Season” and “Lifetime” each conveying the meaning on its own-people that you either meet for a reason or for a season or for a lifetime. But I did find this classification incomplete for the simple criteria that people that you come across in your life are more complex than stated before. This list doesn’t have place to fit in the people you despise or for that matter people you haven’t met but still admire them! This e-mail got me thinking on the type of people that I have come across in my span of 23 years and some months. People as mentioned and as obvious can come in all forms of family, friends, relatives, acquaintances, teachers and a host of other relations which is one’s personal perspective.
Of all the afore mentioned list of people in my life I think it is the friends category that takes up the maximum amount of your time and energies (given the fact that I am still single!). But yet this really nice and innocent looking category can too have its fair share of troubles…and no I am not talking of the fights or altercations between friends, but the way these people are always treading upon the thin line between acquaintanceship and friendship. That’s the toughest test of all—who should I call my friend and who becomes my acquaintance? It can get really confusing and frustrating to trust somebody. And also what levels of trusting makes some person your friend. The person who you think is trustworthy enough of your friendship and camaraderie may be talking obscene things behind your back and you might never even come to know of this! Disgusting!
Instances that everybody must have come across must be the time when a certain somebody who used to be your very good friend has recently turned into just another casual “someone I know”. So does that mean jumping the line is really that easy? Life is as composite as the mingled pathways of the thoughts that go into birth of these relationships. A very popular saying says that “If you lie with the dogs you rise with the fleas”. But how are you supposed to differentiate between the two? Experience seems to be the only right solution to this query .The downfall to this answer could be bad etches in your mind but at least one would have learnt one’s lesson. And my experience teaches me that the best way to keep these people at bay is to put them under a different category. A category which I choose to call- WEIRD.
P.s: Thoughts expressed here are quite confusing and ‘weird’ but that is how my state of mind was while putting this down.