A chum.




credits go to my beautiful best-friend Raneem for this lovely picture 💗

 Sometimes all you need is a friend. Someone who’s always there to listen to your pointless rants. Someone willing to go the extra mile just to see you smile amidst the obstacles life throws your way. A friend is someone who understands you without you uttering a word, someone who knows where the beginning of your train of thoughts is and where it’s destined to stop.
A friend may be a person, a book or a cup of tea.
A person who immensely cares about you, and feels a great sense of euphoria at your minute successes before you humongous ones. A person who sits besides you and listens to you during the holy hours of night when the world is softly snoring and dreaming away. A person who’s there to motivate you when nobody’s watching, and there by your side cheering you on when the world recognizes you.
Maybe a book, which consumes your sadness and turns it into treasured happiness. A book which absorbs the darkness and sheds a light on life. A book which instantly draws a smile on your face, when it seems mostly impossible. A book which takes you to a whole new dimension, a whole new world and makes you forget the once gloomy things.
Perhaps a cup of tea, not scalding hot, but not chilling cold. Just the right temperature. A cup of tea that draws you in its freshly brewed flavours and indulges you in a world of peace and passion. A cup of tea that warms your insides like a blanket thrown over your soul in a cruel and dire winter night.
A friend with a conversation over a book and a pot of tea. A friend with a cup of tea. A friend and a book. A friend.

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