Although the final season of Friends was in 2004 and its been four years now since Friends, I still make it a point to sit in front of Star World every evening at 7 when one of the episodes is aired. I only started watching Friends after the show had stopped, but I was hooked from the first episode itself. I have probably watched all of the episodes but I still watch them with as much as interest as I would for the first time. I almost know all the dialogues by heart and I repeat them along with the actors all the time. And yet, I am not tired of the repetition. But why?
I think what makes Friends extra special for me is that all of us, no matter at what point of time in our lives, have always wanted to have friends exactly like each of them. At least I did. In my life, I have never had a huge group of friends that I go out and party with every Friday night. I’ve rather been comfortable with a small group of friends who I can rely on with my life. But in your school life, friends are there in school and you come back home to the same parents everyday. That is probably why I adore Friends. You get to be with the most favorite people in your life, for life. That’s what you want in life also. You don’t want to go back home to grumpy people who always want their child to shine and thus do all the hard work. Don’t get me wrong here, I am not criticizing parents and their roles in a child’s life. Its just that, they can never be and react in the manner that friends do. Maybe thats because your friends are of your age and thus they can understand what you’re going through. And you want to live around people like that. People who you can trust and have fun with. Turn to advice for. Laugh with them. Cry with them. Get drunk and abuse bad boyfriends. Get pregnant and name one of them the Godfather. Most of us, we want our lives to be like that. And Friends, was just perfect for that.
Today, 13 years after the first show of Friends was aired, you still can’t pick your favorite friend. You love Joey (Matt LeBlanc) for his comedy and his stupidness. He is the friend that always makes you feel like a genius. An out-and-out foodie, Joey is a great guy at heart and perfect with his outgoing sexual behavior. Chandler (Mathew Perry) is probably the perfect husband. He is outrageously funny and his comic timing is perfect. The funniest part is probably that none of his friends know what his job is. He is the guy who just has to make fun of his friends and yet you adore him because of his loyalty towards them. Nobody could have done the part better that Lisa Kudrow for Phoebe. An eccentric masseuse and a musician at heart, Phoebe is the perfect weirdo that you miss in daily life. She believes that she can cleanse auras, talk to spirits and in one episode, she even believed that she was possessed with the spirit of an 82 year old woman with unfinished business. Although a control freak, you can’t help but like the cleanliness obsessed Monica (Courtney Arquette Cox). Her relationship with Chandler is the perfect one that everyone dreams of having. And who doesn’t appreciate good cooking? Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) comes across as a slightly spoilt rich girl in the beginning who decides to take control of her life and does a job that “she is actually good at.” In her on and off relationship with Ross, we see a very romantic girl who loves to love. Although slightly geeky and obsessed with dinosaurs, you can’t help but fall in love with Ross (David Schwimmer). He is a slightly psychotic character who has been helplessly in love with Rachel since 9th Grade and was never able to confess it to her. They all come together and are almost like your friends. Each character seems to be incomplete without the other five.
The reason why I wrote this blog today was that I found a clip online, which showed interviews with the six stars just before the last episode, was aired. The fact that after ten years, these people are not really together as ‘friends’ sometimes is a little disheartening. So I just wanted to kind of give a tribute to them. Friends will always remain close to my heart. I’m sure that I will still be watching the DVD’s even when I’m a grandmother. I absolutely love them!
I think what makes Friends extra special for me is that all of us, no matter at what point of time in our lives, have always wanted to have friends exactly like each of them. At least I did. In my life, I have never had a huge group of friends that I go out and party with every Friday night. I’ve rather been comfortable with a small group of friends who I can rely on with my life. But in your school life, friends are there in school and you come back home to the same parents everyday. That is probably why I adore Friends. You get to be with the most favorite people in your life, for life. That’s what you want in life also. You don’t want to go back home to grumpy people who always want their child to shine and thus do all the hard work. Don’t get me wrong here, I am not criticizing parents and their roles in a child’s life. Its just that, they can never be and react in the manner that friends do. Maybe thats because your friends are of your age and thus they can understand what you’re going through. And you want to live around people like that. People who you can trust and have fun with. Turn to advice for. Laugh with them. Cry with them. Get drunk and abuse bad boyfriends. Get pregnant and name one of them the Godfather. Most of us, we want our lives to be like that. And Friends, was just perfect for that.
Today, 13 years after the first show of Friends was aired, you still can’t pick your favorite friend. You love Joey (Matt LeBlanc) for his comedy and his stupidness. He is the friend that always makes you feel like a genius. An out-and-out foodie, Joey is a great guy at heart and perfect with his outgoing sexual behavior. Chandler (Mathew Perry) is probably the perfect husband. He is outrageously funny and his comic timing is perfect. The funniest part is probably that none of his friends know what his job is. He is the guy who just has to make fun of his friends and yet you adore him because of his loyalty towards them. Nobody could have done the part better that Lisa Kudrow for Phoebe. An eccentric masseuse and a musician at heart, Phoebe is the perfect weirdo that you miss in daily life. She believes that she can cleanse auras, talk to spirits and in one episode, she even believed that she was possessed with the spirit of an 82 year old woman with unfinished business. Although a control freak, you can’t help but like the cleanliness obsessed Monica (Courtney Arquette Cox). Her relationship with Chandler is the perfect one that everyone dreams of having. And who doesn’t appreciate good cooking? Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) comes across as a slightly spoilt rich girl in the beginning who decides to take control of her life and does a job that “she is actually good at.” In her on and off relationship with Ross, we see a very romantic girl who loves to love. Although slightly geeky and obsessed with dinosaurs, you can’t help but fall in love with Ross (David Schwimmer). He is a slightly psychotic character who has been helplessly in love with Rachel since 9th Grade and was never able to confess it to her. They all come together and are almost like your friends. Each character seems to be incomplete without the other five.
The reason why I wrote this blog today was that I found a clip online, which showed interviews with the six stars just before the last episode, was aired. The fact that after ten years, these people are not really together as ‘friends’ sometimes is a little disheartening. So I just wanted to kind of give a tribute to them. Friends will always remain close to my heart. I’m sure that I will still be watching the DVD’s even when I’m a grandmother. I absolutely love them!
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