"Sophie's another reminder that time is unstoppable, that life does not wait. ... Sophie comes back up front to say good-bye. We exchange email addresses. We'll probably never see each other again. That's not because we don't care about each other. It's because our lives will travel on different trajectories. Sophie thinks we'll be buddies for her entire life. That's sweet. One day she'll realize that friends float in and out of your life with astonishing rapidity. This is especially true in the restaurant business. You can work next to people for several years, know all their aspirations and fears; but once you move on, odds are heavy you'll lose touch. I've learned to be glad to have known people when I knew them."
If you watch, you see yourself reflected in other people. Good and bad. And familiar things are said and repeated throughout time. No one is first and no one is last.
I think we are the sum of the people we have met. Everyone we meet we leave something behind. A phrase. A memento. A memory or two. If we really are lucky, the people we meet change us in some way.
Hopefully for the best.
I think we forget to thank our friends the most. I mean, we do. But we don't really. I expect them to be there tomorrow. Then, they aren't. They get caught up in their own stories. So do you.
Tomorrow I'll regret not thanking you yesterday for making me into who I am today. But today I think you'll always be right here forever, ready for me and next week you won't even exist anymore.
Here we are, standing at the end. Do you even realize it? Are we going to stand here as it drifts into the ether? Or are we going to fight it as it drifts into the ether? It's a pointless fight. (Though, the pointless fights have always had more value than the fights for a cause.) Here we are, at the end of the world, isn't everything beautiful?
No comments:
Post a Comment