I’m not exactly sure how to describe my mood… is it sad, somber, frustrated or just philosophical. All I do know is that things in life can never be taken for granted. This isn’t a sweet innocent story from school or a smoke-filled hazy college tale. This is that bitter pill in your hand, whether you choose to take it and deal with whatever lies beyond or wear your poker face. 12 years of school, 4 years of college and the question still remains as to who is a friend? Perusing through my memories I find an astonishing variety of answers to this. Tongue-tied and tight lipped are some whose experiences can enlighten others. Yet where did we begin to believe in friends forever and chuddy buddies? Blame the movies for delivering romance and drama into our lives and heightening our expectations. The hypocrisy is unrelenting. We want what we want yet who dares to rise above themselves? To go that extra mile for another person? More troubling is the fact that the convenience of this is fitting like a perfect piece in a jig-saw. Life seems to be beyond meandering about and a fast-paced, foot-on-gas style of living has removed what little affection we retain. If you’re a steaming train headed to your destination why would you care about those nosy little stations on the way? Open those chapters in life, the ones which you vividly recant. And within that moment, good or bad, does another person feature? If your answer is aye, what happened to them I ask. Do you share a smoothie now and then, exchanging dreary facets of your life? A pie here, a coffee there… Innocent until proven guilty says the penal code, but doesn’t your conscience tug at you? The truth, however insane it may sound, does not beget your ire. All I say is.. was it worth staying away? The answer does not lie in your mind but in your heart. The twists and turns of life are easily maneuvered with a navigator than alone is my belief. I am fortunate to meet such colorful and mundane characters in equal proportions. But like dew on a lotus leaf I left untouched. Jokes, partying, riding out and sleeping though classes aside, who stick now shall stick forever. Who leave now shall leave forever too I’m told. An interesting question I put to one and all is if you were stranded, bereft of any means to leave save call your ‘friends’, who would come? Who would step aside from routine and drive out to take you home? On the face of it, it may seem innocent but I kid you not. Look further into the question and you will find someone or no one. That is the simple truth of who is with you and who isn’t. We do not know when we turn from friends to acquaintances to colleagues and one day into memories…. In spite of these afflictions of man-kind there is some hope. Those odd moments when you bare a little piece of your soul to a ‘FRIEND’. In those moments, born of fate and the fruit of truth, lies who we believe in. Not so often, yet like a phoenix from the ashes, hope can arise. All may not be lost… Are you kidding yourselves? See what I meant by drama and romance from movies? Alas I don’t have any answers. Just the brim of the cup about to tip over upon us I presume. ‘Man is a social animal’, whoever said that might reconsider that within the unconfined spaces of our lives we still live chained to mistrust. Those souls who can sympathize or indeed empathize will understand a lonely existence isn’t a miserable existence per-se. Just an unfulfilling one. Friends seem to that speck on the distant horizon. The question is, is it dawn or dusk?....
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:32:53 +0000
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