-Gilda Radner
What if the day we met someone the path we would travel together was visible? What if a movie screen in our hearts revealed a quick trailer of what was to be? Maybe it would change the story to know in advance. Plus, that would change the "delicious ambiguity," as Gilda Radner describes it. The joy of discovery and of looking back years later thinking how incredible life is.
Old friends are so unique because they were there before it all. They've walked beside you and remember who you are at the core. And when the bad cards are dealt, they help you rebuild your hand. People inevitably change through their own triumphs and failures. That's what makes enduring friendship so special because as much as we change, it stays constant.
I was recently talking with an old friend about how our time together is energizing. She is going through one hell of a crisis helping not one, but two family members in the fight of their lives and somehow she remains optimistic. The same girl I used to laugh with around the lunch table in the school cafeteria is still in there. It amazes me. I realized that she energizes me by being the kind of person she is. One who can appreciate each day for the value it has. Who remembers that being kind and willing to laugh can be the best remedy. And though neither of us is perfect, somehow we have managed to hang on to our connection to one and other. I wish desperately that she and I could hold hands and jump into the flood of uncertainty her family is facing and figure out a way to fix it.
In the end I guess there are a lot of things we can't control. But we do have the opportunity to maintain those friendships that have seen us through it all. To attempt to give as much as we take. Then when we look back together, the staggering beauty of the story will be something we never expected.
Old friends are so unique because they were there before it all. They've walked beside you and remember who you are at the core. And when the bad cards are dealt, they help you rebuild your hand. People inevitably change through their own triumphs and failures. That's what makes enduring friendship so special because as much as we change, it stays constant.
I was recently talking with an old friend about how our time together is energizing. She is going through one hell of a crisis helping not one, but two family members in the fight of their lives and somehow she remains optimistic. The same girl I used to laugh with around the lunch table in the school cafeteria is still in there. It amazes me. I realized that she energizes me by being the kind of person she is. One who can appreciate each day for the value it has. Who remembers that being kind and willing to laugh can be the best remedy. And though neither of us is perfect, somehow we have managed to hang on to our connection to one and other. I wish desperately that she and I could hold hands and jump into the flood of uncertainty her family is facing and figure out a way to fix it.
In the end I guess there are a lot of things we can't control. But we do have the opportunity to maintain those friendships that have seen us through it all. To attempt to give as much as we take. Then when we look back together, the staggering beauty of the story will be something we never expected.
Well put G. Old friends are more of a blessing each day. Would have never believed the type and number of laughs AND tears we've shared back when we met. I love you!
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