Diagonally parked in a Parallel Universe

"Tell me one pick up line that you can get aboard with. Or, will one never work?" he said.

"Well, one has worked till now.

A pretty classic one.

Someone once said to me that- You pierce my soul. I'm half agony, half hope." I said.

Least did he know that I had used one of my best pick up lines confronting my feelings for him just before I was friend-zoned.

The world has witnessed the intense agony of this dreaded concept of being friend-zoned from the very start. The classic movie Casablanca can be used as a perfect example, where Ilsa gets friend zoned by Rick.

If only a friend zoned person like me could toss a bucketful of ice on his head, shake him out of their obliviousness, and chide all over "I am here, I have always been here."

It does seems sometimes like you are doing just about everything and anything that you can which is within or even beyond the bounds of friendship. By now you can tell the number of beers that he like to nosh on when he is upset or that garish scene from his most loved sitcom that he watches. In spite of this, you realize that you will never have the capacity to get his head around the way that you have affections for him. You'll always be a friend to him.

I have been trying to figure out for years that what's the harm in that anyway?

Then again, now that I have hit my 20's, I trust that there is nothing called being friend zoned. When you stand up to somebody confronting your feeling's, it is possible that you'll live cheerfully ever after with that person or just part your ways.

Though, are these the only two conceivable choices?

No.

There is a third wheel to this which might be seen as a bit tongue-tied in the beginning. Just because someone has not reciprocated your feeling doesn't imply that that is the conclusion to everything. You can give yourself the space needed to relinquish those feelings. However, that doesn't mean you need to abandon the friendship that drove you first towards that feeling. After all, a good friend is exactly like a good bra, hard to find, comfortable and always lifts you up.

Now, whether women and men can be "just friends" is a topic that's been debated ad nauseam. Popular culture has befuddled us significantly more, with endless movies and shows - everything from "When Harry Met Sally" to "Friends" - portraying long-term pals, in the long run, falling into bed together.

In any case, that isn't it.

Where harry so persuasively put it that: "The sex part dependably acts as a burden," there are platonic friendships happening everywhere throughout the world. This drained idea that men and women can't be friends isn't just wrong - it's unfortunate. When we have platonic friends who we identify as the same gender as our love interests, it is also a vital aspect of maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner.

And this comes out of a personal experience. From the time I texted him " Suppose in a parallel universe Anubha develops some feeling for ****, then what would have been your reaction?" to the time he asked whether any pickup line would have worked on me; 2 years have passed, and a great friendship has been endured.

What more, the view is always amazing while being diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Yes, it really did happen.