Yesterday, in the supermarket, I bumped into an old friend and his twin brother.
We hadn’t renewed our acquaintance for quite some time, which was more my fault than theirs.
While they never quite made it into the inner circle of close friends, they were always around when needed and I always liked them for their dependability and ability to get the job done. This is something I do appreciate even more at times of wannabe artisans and people trowing around inflated terms like “amazing” and “game changer” that in truth often just mean “scarcely better than average”.
As far as I know, they were originally from the US, but over the years they have called many places home; Germany, India, yesterday they came from Italy, but I am sure there are other places…
Interestingly, the one place where they are hardly seen nowadays is in the US.
I invited the olive-skinned one home with me because we go back a long time, and the ensuing get-together was truly lovely, but I think that next time I should invite the fairer one along as well.
They come from a large and extended family and sometimes they look confusingly similar, so one has to look closely to tell them apart.
They used to have a little brother who had many friends who loved him dearly, but sadly he is no longer with us.
Her surely is missed…
I enjoy meeting old, down to earth friends and cannot help thinking that I should make more of an effort to keep seeing more of each other.
Reliability and dependability are qualities that we should appreciate more, even if they come in modest, unpretentious clothes, don’t you agree?
B.
We hadn’t renewed our acquaintance for quite some time, which was more my fault than theirs.
While they never quite made it into the inner circle of close friends, they were always around when needed and I always liked them for their dependability and ability to get the job done. This is something I do appreciate even more at times of wannabe artisans and people trowing around inflated terms like “amazing” and “game changer” that in truth often just mean “scarcely better than average”.
As far as I know, they were originally from the US, but over the years they have called many places home; Germany, India, yesterday they came from Italy, but I am sure there are other places…
Interestingly, the one place where they are hardly seen nowadays is in the US.
I invited the olive-skinned one home with me because we go back a long time, and the ensuing get-together was truly lovely, but I think that next time I should invite the fairer one along as well.
They come from a large and extended family and sometimes they look confusingly similar, so one has to look closely to tell them apart.
They used to have a little brother who had many friends who loved him dearly, but sadly he is no longer with us.
Her surely is missed…
I enjoy meeting old, down to earth friends and cannot help thinking that I should make more of an effort to keep seeing more of each other.
Reliability and dependability are qualities that we should appreciate more, even if they come in modest, unpretentious clothes, don’t you agree?
B.
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