All you need
Sometimes all you need to quit smoking is for someone to care enough to order you to stop.
Sometimes all you need to resist temptation is for someone to still love you even if you give in.
Sometimes all you need to quit being being a coward is for someone to tell you they’ll protect you.
Sometimes all you need to stop ageing is for someone to remember you as a kid.
Sometimes all you need to be happy is to be reminded that your happiness and you matter to someone.
At most times…all you really need….is a friend.
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1Yashita
wrote on 19 March 2007 at 17:44
Most of the times, all you really need is someone to talk to.
2Shripriya
wrote on 19 March 2007 at 19:17
Aww… this is sweet.
3ricercer
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 3:59
cant tell you how much i loved this post
so, where do you find a friend
4hyde
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 8:19
A moment ago, I was thinking on similar lines…
5wiseling
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 10:15
very true… from experience i say, sometimes all you need to feel better is to just be held
6Shreyasi
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 11:09
How true…and all my needs coem together, meddle up and then probably the other doesnt know what I need!
7Pravin Paratey
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 12:28
What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song
And I’ll try not to sing out of key
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
(The Beatles – With a little help from my friends)
8ideasmith
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 13:03
@ Yashita: But someone who really cares, else a shrink will do just as well!
@ Shripriya, Hyde, Wiseling: Ever wonder why we all know this and yet shy away from admitting to it?
@ Ricercer: In my experience, everywhere…once you drop the inhibitions and judgements. There are obstacles and disappointments but the people I’ve found at the end are usually worth it. I always think if I met a 100 awful people and found 1 friend, that person was worth going through all those other 100, for.
@ Shreyasi: Ah, intelligence can be a curse, no?
@ Pravin Paratey: You do know I love that song don’t you?
Just in case you missed it on Alternate Idea…and it has also been my ringtone for awhile.
9Australopithecus
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 17:03
true.
10sherriff
wrote on 20 March 2007 at 17:13
Most of the times after reading ur post, only word comes to my mind “vow”
…BTW being a smoker, cud relate to the first line…lol
11hyde
wrote on 21 March 2007 at 1:38
Because only a friend will understand, and at that instant a friend is what you are missing.
12Brad
wrote on 21 March 2007 at 8:46
We try!
13ideasmith
wrote on 21 March 2007 at 10:23
@ Brad:
We know! And we see, hear and understand even if we don’t always reply.
14lemonade
wrote on 21 March 2007 at 18:34
wow..!!! awesome words..!!! really got me thinking…
15Ranjan
wrote on 22 March 2007 at 10:56
All I need is to stop fighting myself and be friends
16anand jeyahar
wrote on 11 April 2010 at 10:41
All i need is to fall in love with myself….but as is my wont, and as you quoted i am wetting my feet going slowly in…panicking at waist height running back and then going in…….heck don’t know how much longer to plunge and swim ahead….