I love the song that is the title of this post. Well, i think i love all the songs from Sunset Boulevard!!!
In just a few minutes, the song manages to capture the busy-ness of life at a movie studio, people bumping into each other, promising to make time to catch up - hence the repeated phrase in the song, "Let's have lunch". But just as soon as those words were uttered, the people part ways.
Is that how yr life is? I have to confess that that is how mine is most of the time. I'd meet a fren - physically or on-line, and i'd always say that we should meet to catch up. "Let's have coffee". "We should have a drink together". "Let's have lunch". I'd be so busy - or maybe i am just a procrastinator through and through - that i would put off catching up with me mates. And my life just doesn't get 'not busy'! In fact, it just gets busier and busier. So i end up never catching up with that fren.
Just before i left to go to Reading last month, i got a winter coat from a mate - and the last thing we said to each other was that we should talk when i get back. He had some interesting (juicy?) updates to tell.
We never did meet. We never had that conversation. The mysterious girl will remain just that - a mystery.
Me mate passed away in his sleep. Suddenly. Unexpectedly.
I did see him online when i got back. He's always online very early in morning. But i never nudge him, never im-ed him. I was too busy. He was surely busy too.
Do i regret it? I cannot answer that in the negative. So many things to talk about. We were supposed to go for a hike together too. This was planned since last year but i was just too busy and had to put it off till this month.
I was just telling a student this week to go out and play in the snow instead of staying indoors preparing for her IHRL tutes (hope Prof Sandy doesn't read this blog!!!). I asked her what would she want to remember when she thinks back to this week in her life at Reading - that she was out wif her mates making snowmen and having snowball fights, or that she was indoors trying hard to ignore the cheerful laughters and pure white snow?
In the same way, i ask meself today - when i look back, what do i want to remember? That i was busy at work ignoring everyone or that i had a wonderful time wif a fren over a latte?
So.... I will make it a point to catch up wif me mates. I will try not to procrastinate. I will go for that coffee. I will have that supper. I will take the time - no, i will make the time. I hope i will...
So who's free for lunch?
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There was once an email I received... the content is roughly like this:
One day, a lecturer brought a large mayonaise jar, a bag filled with things, and his usual cuppa coffee into the class. He then chucked two golf balls into the mayonaise jar, asking the students if the jar is full. Everyone said it is full.
He then put in a pack of glass marble balls, it filled the empty spaces between the golf balls. He asked the same question again, and got back the same answer.
He then poured in a huge bag of sands into the jar, again the empty spaces were filled up. He asked the same question, again he got the same answer -- the jar is now full.
He then pour his cup of coffee into it. The jar still managed to hold the cup of coffee.
He then speaks to the class -- no matter how full your schedule is, you always have time for a cup of coffee.
I guessed you may be read it before, I may not have told it the exact way. Anyway, I always love this story, because it motivate an introvert like me to try socialise a little.
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