It is the birthday of one of my best friends on Monday.
Now a lot of people have life-long friends but strictly speaking I was still in utero when we first met.
Growing up and through to adult life we kept ending up roughly in the same place. That run ended though and now a hemisphere and a day of flying separates.
This is simply a tremendous person and someone with one of the biggest hearts I have ever seen in a man. I miss him.
Another of my best friends is going through a tough time right now. A relative newcomer, I have only known him for 20 years. He is only 9 hours or so away by plane.
Just about the single most intelligent person I know and yet somehow simultaneously one of the most foolish. But in his perfectly symmetrical and round head he knows this. An amazing individual.
I couldn’t ask for two better friends and I admire and respect them both very much.
There are myriad tales, some repeatable and some not.
Time was passed. Lives lived. Loves lost and won.
If you really are judged by the company you keep then I should be set-up nicely.
Time and distance may divide but the same sun sets on us all.
The bonds are permanent.
And they can only imagine how much they are loved.
