Lost Friendships, Pressed Memories

Over the Christmas break I had the marvelous opportunity to read the Harry Potter series. It was wonderful. When I was bored I knew exactly what I was going to do: I would read Harry Potter. I will admit that although I was not obsessed with the series, I enjoyed the characters and felt enough connection with them to cry when one (or more) died. During the late hours of the night (and sometimes the wee hours of the morning) I was never at a loss for something to keep me occupied. This book series was like a friend who was always there. And then, 4,125 pages later, my friend left me. The parting was bittersweet. The first few days after I finished the series were odd. I was bored more often then usual and I longed to be back in the middle of the series.

But, as always happens with life, I was presented with a new friend a few weeks later: the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Again, I fell for the story and the characters. I watched the short twenty two minute shows whenever I could find (or make) time and sometimes stayed up past when I would have normally to watch the next one after a "To Be Continued..." episode. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and connected with the characters and their journeys. I had a new friend. And then, last week, I realized that our friendship was drawing to a close. I prolonged the inevitable as long as my desire to find out what happened next would allow. But, in the end, it was over. Another friend gone.

Somebody famous once said that "You know you have read a good book when you turn the last page and feel like you have lost a friend." It seems that I have lost many friends (some of them repeatedly). But, these friends are like flowers on the side of the road. Seeing them and smelling them is wonderful, but eventually we have to keep walking; we can't stay there forever. But we can cut them, and press them into our memories for as long as we'd like. "Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end. But in my heart? A memory. And there, you'll always be" (Fox and the Hound).

I'm so glad that I have such a love for reading and the watching of good, wholesome, child-like (not childish) shows. Boy! am I a nerd. :)

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"A man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot read." --Mark Twain

"Seek ye out of the best books." --Scriptures (somewhere) :D

"When you come to the last page, close the book." --Chinese Proverb

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Today's Featured Quote:

"How can you read this? There's no pictures!" --Gaston, Beauty and the Beast