This story of friends sticking together through adversity will melt your heart

8 Aug 2016 4:17 PM IST

\"When your best friend goes through something like this, your life changes completely as well.\"

The friends have now started a salon together and plan on starting motivational seminars (Photo: Instagram/officialhumansofbombay)

People yesterday celebrated friendship day in their own ways, as messages and social media posts regarding the same flooded the internet. But there are some exemplary friendships which show that this beautiful relationship isn’t about just one day.

While few people truly adhere to the doctrine of standing with their friends come what may, an inspiring post on Humans of Bombay told a story that shows what lengths some people can go to for keeping that promise.

Uploaded in two parts on Instagram, tells the tale of two friends who met in college as their life takes an unexpected turn when one of them stumbles down stairs in a pub during celebrations of her engagement.

She then goes on to narrate how her friend found her in a motionless state and found that she was bleeding profusely. She mentions that the friend rushed her to the hospital and never left her side, despite being hospital phobic herself.

She further wrote, "I went into surgery at 11 in the morning and thought that I would recover...it didn't even occur to me that I may not have sensation because my spinal injury was so bad...on the 2nd day I just broke down and started crying."

She mentioned that after two years she lost of hope that things would get better, and also asked her fiancé to move on, but her friend never gave up on her. The friend made all plans at places that were more wheelchair friendly and how easy it would be for her to commute.

The woman says she is still strong willed due to support from her friend and plays badminton, hoping to represent India at the Para Olympics. The duo has also started a salon together, as they work and travel together every day.

This inspiring tale of how a friend refused to give up and motivated the woman to take charge of her life, is perfectly summed up by her friend’s quote, which goes, "When your best friend goes through something like this, your life changes completely as well.

Here's the full Instagram post:

“We met during our FYJC and immediately became friends. We went through the highs and lows of college life, facing the real world, getting a job…all together. When I turned 26, I got engaged to the love of my life and we were all out celebrating at a club one night when it happened. I walked up the stairs from the basement to attend to a call, and on the staircase someone brushed passed me, I lost balance and fell. I remember trying to get up to get my phone and call my friends but I just couldn’t move…there was no sensation. Within minutes she found me and as she placed my head on her lap she realised that I was profusely bleeding. It took one hour for the ambulance to get to us…and even after I reached the hospital at around 4 in the morning there weren’t a lot of doctors. All through, I knew she as hospital phobic…she would get anxiety even at the mention of a doctor but here she was, yelling at people to hurry up, call the doctors and get things moving. I went into surgery at 11 in the morning and thought that I would recover…it didn’t even occur to me that I may not have sensation because my spinal injury was so bad…on the 2nd day I just broke down and started crying. My fiancé flew down and we all thought that with physiotherapy I would get better…but it wouldn’t work. I refused to get on a wheelchair for the first few months so every day she would come home, try to make me feel better and put me before her on every occasion. When I finally knew that there was no solution after 2 years, I told my fiancé that I loved him too much and that he should move on…it was a difficult decision but I knew in my heart it was the right one and through that entire time, she was with me as strong as a rock.” (1/2)

A photo posted by Humans of Bombay (@officialhumansofbombay) on Aug 7, 2016 at 6:43am PDT

"When your best friend goes through something like this, your life changes completely as well. For months after, when the rest of our group was making plans I would first think of her — basic things like going out for coffee or going out to bar…how would she do it? It was like a part of me was immobile and I was ok with it as long as I could make her feel better. When she finally decided to get on a wheelchair, I said, enough is enough we have to change this mood — the two of us began to travel all over the world— in fact, she’s the one who even organised my bachelorette party for me! We were in Miami and we wore these goofy halloween costumes, we’ve partied nights together, bag packed across Europe and had the most bizarre adventures. While here in Bombay, the two of us started a salon together which is completely wheelchair friendly. We work together, we travel together and laugh way too much! She’s unbelievably strong…I remember when I was getting a divorce 4 years ago, she was at my doorstep everyday…she never let me slip and I remember thinking about how her problems were so much bigger than mine but she never stopped smiling. She’s courageous enough to share her story and we’re even starting motivational seminars together…she’s so determined that she still plays badminton and is hopeful of representing India at the Para Olympics! We have so many memories together but my happiest one? When I met her on my first day at FYJC — a thin, scrawny girl riding into college on a huge bike and me thinking to myself ‘this girl is so weird and quirky — we’re definitely going to be friends.’" (2/2)

A photo posted by Humans of Bombay (@officialhumansofbombay) on Aug 7, 2016 at 9:40am PDT

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )

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