Best compliment which was supposed to be unheard

I don’t know why I have always been a girl who’s usually the first one with, whom close friends will share all their tragedies. It’s a very fond memory about my life. My friends would always forget me in their good and fun times but suddenly I become their best friend when they are in some sort of trouble. I never have had any solution to their problems, and they go away after talking to me with the same problems on their back, but still they will keep turning back to me whenever any other tragedy occurs.

I have never asked them what they like about me so much. Nor do I want to know. I am just happy about the fact that they feel that I am worthy enough for their trust.

Just one fact I know. There’s a girl who’s my close friend (luckily she does not have a Facebook profile now, otherwise I would not share this link). She often came to me with her problems and used to stay over at my place. Her problems were so deep that I sometimes did not even utter a word because I did not know what to say. One day at night I was fast asleep. Her phone rang. She went outside in the balcony so that she would not disturb my sleep. I don’t know who called her. But I heard her saying on the call. “I truly would have committed suicide, had it not for this girl Maryam. Her actions always remind me that life is simple, if we have fewer expectations from life and sometimes let some problems remain the way they are. I know it’s easy to say but I have a friend who actually LIVES this principle. She enjoys almost everything. I have seen it every day in her life”. I did not ask her anything on our morning tea ..

 I don't even know whether I changed over the years or still am that way.

BUT that was the best compliment about me I received so far in my life.