What is it about friends - what is it that they contribute so much to ones we’ll bring and happiness? Sure there is being seen, being acknowledged - but there’s that joy of sharing - the music discovered, the cocktail experiment, the travel adventure - just the shared experience that is so much greater than the things one experiences on their own.
Epicures, the first true hedonist knew: “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”
We celebrate now as we can, through zoom chats, emails, phone calls, conversations across the social distance the real connection was never something physical, and yet there is something about occupying the same space or time. We still need to be “together” in some way. Confinement has been a challenge to be sure, but it is comforting that we are finding ways around it, that we can still share our experiences, laugh at the absurdity, and remain optimistic that we’ll get together again in the bar, that club, that vacation home, or our own kitchens and living rooms where we prepare each other feasts from our discoveries. It won’t happen tomorrow, but we all know it will come.
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