For Elizabeth
"Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return."- T.H.White
When I was younger, my stories were always fantastical tales of rescue, drama and unnecessary tragedy. During recess my friends and I would always play pretend and the playground would no longer be filled with swings, climbing bars and slides; they were now castles with high turrets and dungeons and inevitably, one poor fool would need rescuing. Even the stories I wrote were riddled with overexaggerated adjectives and unnecessary description. I realise now, that old sayings are true - beauty is simplicty.
It's so easy to fall into the trap of using too many words to describe one thing. Too often a simple "I love you" turns into a 6 page sonnet where your audience has already forgotten what you said in page 1 and has to ask you - so...you love me, right?" I think we just get caught up in our ability to string words together and possibly impress the other with our supposed eloquence. There's this quotation in Invisible Man, by Ellison, he wrote that Louis Armstrong makes poetry out of invisibility. This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Lisa thought that she was growing stupid, she went on a "brain binge" and went to a jazz hall. The guy sitting next to her said that what the musician was playing didn’t make sense, and she says to him, " you need to listen to the notes that he’s not playing".
I made a promise to a dear friend that I would tell a story. So I will.
There are two girls that I've known for over a year now. In the last year we became better friends and in the past few months we became deeper friends. Before I really knew them, I had no real opinion except that I found them to be unique. The irony is that they're twins. Now that the days where I would sneak into the back to see which twin was working so that I didn't get their names wrong (again) are completely forgotten, I know them to be unfailingly kind and the representation of love. I am blessed; and I know this to be true.
posted by Joyce @ 11:38 PM
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