Dear future hubster,
as an addition or elaboration or
continuation of the "how friends happen to you" theory picks up where
we left off: that we do choose to put in the time and effort for those
accidental friendships to live on. Otherwise they will be no more than a
friend fling, a could have been, a "what a great person" moment.
We need to make memories. We need to
have experiences together. A long car ride is an experience, be it between
Luxembourg and Fehérvár or between Gisenyi and Kigali. Entebbe and Jinja. Lucca
and Luzern. A long walk is an experience, be it between Logroño and Nájera or
between Karanga and Barafu. Long nights of board games are an experience, long
afternoons of making food are an experience, long days of listening to music,
watching the Olympics and discussing shot-putting are experiences. Looking and
sunsets and sunrises and storms and rainbows together. Going to see Tour de
France hungover in some godforsaken village. Attracting all the creepers one
field can gather. Suffering on mountains and sleeping under the same mosquito
net.
Bottom line is: we need to put in the work.
For all that technology offers, e-drinking and skype calls are but a
substitute. A good tool to keep it up until we can make those memories again,
but they can't replace the actual making. Without that, these friendships of
ours just become yet another thing we could have done.
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