Presumption and Perception among Friends part 1. A Story from the Mahabharata.

Friendship, especially childhood friendships can suffer due to presumption and perception.

We have all experienced it. We are friends in school, we drift apart and meet again after years. In our eyes, we are the same, and the other person is also the same.

We meet with great joy, we open our hearts. We look at each other through the prism of time. We see a distorted image.

But life and our experiences have changed both of us. We don’t realize this and sometimes the friendship ge...