a brief memoriam
I recieved some down news today, and I'm a bit shaken, but I feel the need to at least say something.
I don't want to go into the details, but suffice to say it doesn't involve me or anyone you would remotely know. It's much farther back in my past. So don't worry. But do me a favor, perhaps in a small memory of this moment, and of someone else. Next time you see your friends, those few comets that bump into your atmosphere, remember to let them know that the shared friendship means something. We can't talk all the time, nor would we want to,lol, but sometimes its the non literal that matters most. we just forget to remind each other that we choose to share these fleeting moments of life. It's not any particularly fascinating force that pulls us together, it is, rather, our own active choices.
We've been raised in a world that refuses true human emotions, and replaces them with capitalist interests, of emotion as commodities and gifts and business favors...and sometimes, because of this, we lose our momentum, and our awareness of the people around us. We may even lose track of ourselves. But, even in respect to the material world, sometimes friendship can be the strongest bond between two objects.
Regardless of gods and saints and sinners, there are at least two things than cannot be taken from us, of this I am sure: 1. Love. 2. the memories of a friend. No matter where we go, and even if we never speak again, we take these two gifts to our graves, quaint and cold, but they might as well be underground coal fires melting the snow off the fields.
so, if you do nothing else this week, make it abundantly clear to those around you that they matter in your life, no matter how small an importance as it may seem. It may be the fuel that they need to take one more step. and one more step, well that's all we can ask of anyone, wherever they may be headed.
thanks,
JG
I don't want to go into the details, but suffice to say it doesn't involve me or anyone you would remotely know. It's much farther back in my past. So don't worry. But do me a favor, perhaps in a small memory of this moment, and of someone else. Next time you see your friends, those few comets that bump into your atmosphere, remember to let them know that the shared friendship means something. We can't talk all the time, nor would we want to,lol, but sometimes its the non literal that matters most. we just forget to remind each other that we choose to share these fleeting moments of life. It's not any particularly fascinating force that pulls us together, it is, rather, our own active choices.
We've been raised in a world that refuses true human emotions, and replaces them with capitalist interests, of emotion as commodities and gifts and business favors...and sometimes, because of this, we lose our momentum, and our awareness of the people around us. We may even lose track of ourselves. But, even in respect to the material world, sometimes friendship can be the strongest bond between two objects.
Regardless of gods and saints and sinners, there are at least two things than cannot be taken from us, of this I am sure: 1. Love. 2. the memories of a friend. No matter where we go, and even if we never speak again, we take these two gifts to our graves, quaint and cold, but they might as well be underground coal fires melting the snow off the fields.
so, if you do nothing else this week, make it abundantly clear to those around you that they matter in your life, no matter how small an importance as it may seem. It may be the fuel that they need to take one more step. and one more step, well that's all we can ask of anyone, wherever they may be headed.
thanks,
JG