by Brother Jittin Mathew
MUMBAI, AUGUST 7, 2018:We don't have the option of choosing our family, but we certainly can choose our friends. Friends reflect our personality, and friendships keep us on track during the tough and trying moments of our life.
A group of volunteers visited Bosco Boys' Home in Borivli to celebrate the special relationship of friendship with the boys on July 31. The visitors befriended the inmates with homemade cupcakes, coffee, their friendly words and the symbolic gesture of friendship day- tying wrist bands.
Friendship Day is observed on the first Sunday of August each year. Volunteers came forward in large numbers to meet the under privileged youth, and offer their hand of friendship to them.
When asked, what made them come here to celebrate Friendship Day with the lesser privileged, when they could have chosen any other place to spend their time with friends, a volunteer said, "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. We want to tell these boys that we care, we love them."
The volunteers interacted with the boys and made them realise that there is someone who cares for them. They even taught the boys how to make friendship bands, and organised various friendship games for them.
At the end of each game, the volunteers would make the boys sit in groups, hold each other's hand and repeat the words, "We are best friends forever!"