Question:“On old friends”
On old friends
An old friend is someone who knows who you were. That they do not know who you are now is not a flaw. It is a different map they hold. Only by laying the two maps together can you see how far you have come.
Send them one line today, with no business in it: “You came to mind.” Between old friends, having no reason is the reason.
Eurycleia, washing the feet of Odysseus twenty years after he left, knew him by the scar on his leg. Old friends know each other by their scars.