Old Friends...Nothing But Bookends...

[iamalighthouse]

That's rubbish Paul, old friends are less like bookends and more like the shelves...constant, unchanging, and always running through your life no matter how easy it is to ignore them, until they break. And what sits atop is what is afflicted by a variable rate of change

Comments

hmmm

[anonymous]

Well, I agree that a catch-up conversation is not inherently going to be like instantly dropping you into old times, I don't think you can just pretend that XX amount of time with no updating on life has occurred. It is the mark of a friend to be interested in the life of the other friend.

A detail by detail rehash is a bit much, but, you have to ask yourself how much do you want to be around a person at all if you don't want to know what he/she has been going over the last couple years or whatever it is.

As your example of Kat calling about a book shows, it is nice to have everything in a normal keel, but life is just too complicate and, at times, time/space divisive for everyone to be on simple, normal terms with everyone else.

My two cents...

-- doooooooooooooooooooooo