Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?
The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.
---Emily Bronte
Read this Poem recently.Rather Read it to someone over a phone conversation.
How true the poem seems.I have experienced both the above emotions and i know how momentary love can be.How one can spend days at end thinking about someone all the time,dreaming about her,seeing her face in everyone one lays eyes upon,cooking up sweet visions about the future,taking her name without any reason with the hope that there will be a momentary connection between their souls.
But how easily this feeling goes away and one starts to pursue reason and putting the feeling in the category of crush and infatuation and what not.
Friendship on the other hand is something which is always there.You might not dream or think about your friends but somewhere deep down inside you know there is someone to fall back upon.
I think one of the main reasons for this is that in Friendship vis-a-vis Love, Expectations are lesser.
I guess as people say that true love lasts forever, i can just imagine how blissful that state will be when you combine the madness and passion of love with the longevity of friendship.
I am sceptical about whether this state truly exists except in the writings of romantics and poets.But if it does, well, the people experiencing it must have boundless luck.Wish me luck ;)
