Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for December 12, 2022
December 05, 2022
December 19, 2022
Transcript:
Around the corner....I have a friend... in this great city that has no end. Yet the days go by and weeks rush on and before I know it...a year is gone. And I never see my old friend's face...for life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well. As in the days when I rang his bell and he rang mine but we were younger then. And now we are busy, tired men, tired of playing a foolish game. Tired of trying to make a name. Tomorrow I will call on Jim. Just to show that I'm thinking of him. But tomorrow comes and goes and distance between us grows and grows. Around the corner... yet miles away. Here's a telegram sir. Jim died today. And that's what we get... and deserve in the end. Around the corner... a vanished friend. -Charles Hanson Towne
This was valid in the past before the advent of social media. Nowadays people can much more easily connect with old acquaintances unless they are among the remaining few holdouts who do not avail themselves to digital networking.