Make New Friends but Keep the Old
Those are Silver but These are GOLD
John Parry (1841-1903)
Old friends remember
details we’ve forgotten, and we do the same for them.
New friends
allow one to reinvent oneself.
Both have
important places in life’s journey.
My oldest continuing friendship is more than half a century
and counting. A few months back, when I posted a photo of little me, (in the
context of having been a cat lover from way back) she reminded me that I used
to concoct, compose, and communicate stories about my cat’s nightly adventures
when the rest of our immediate world was in dreamland.
Oh, then I remembered. Seems I’ve been a storyteller longer
than even I had recalled. Back then, as soon as I told the tale— it became a real
tail. A few years more, and I knew what was fact and what was fiction. But the visceral
memory of what it’s like to be an imaginative person of four and five came
gushing in.
Because old friends sometimes know you better than you know
yourself.
Keep the old.
