One is silver, and the other is gold.
Last week, I was at a friend’s wedding. This friend and I, though we went to high school together, were not friends until we reconnected later after college.
I assumed I would not know anyone at the wedding, so I was surprised when I got there, and two tables worth of people were friends of mine from high school… some I had not seen in 15 years, some I had seen or talked to since but not as much as I would have liked.
Emotions surrounding this became difficult to describe… 16 year old me is reminiscing while 25 year old me is trying to make sense of why we didn’t keep in touch while 32 year old me is wondering what we could do to rekindle the friendship.
Whenever I am at a loss for words or have the some words but they’re jumbled in the mind, I turn to poetry. Here is a collection of some poems that struck chords, both high and low, with me while reflecting:
- To All My Friends by May Yang
- The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
- Friendship by Henry David Thoreau
- [anyone lived in a pretty how town] by e.e. cummings
- Humanity i love you by e.e. cummings
- Scroll down a bit to read it for yourself first, then listen to Amanda Palmer.