Amazon.com: DVD: Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends, Live on Stage
i just picked this dvd up last night.
i have always been a big simon and garfunkel fan for a whole lot of different reasons, but there was a point in my life (that has since long passed) where they were a huge part of the soundtrack of my life.
most interesting to me was the nature of their friendship. close friends for a SHORT time. closer than family, but for whatever reason, they could not get along. in the few years that they could refrain from killing each other, they produced magic. after that, it was a closed chapter. they didn’t speak anymore, and never worked together. a 50 year friendship, open and closed rather quickly.
watching the two back together on stage after such distance between them (and hearing ‘american tune’ sung as a simon and garfunkel tune) i started to think about some of the friendships that i have had in the past that have dissolved quickly and cleanly.
is this really such a bad thing? should we worry when things don’t work out between two people? shouldn’t it be okay if two people at a certain time in their life just can’t get along?
should we worry about this and try to salvage every friendship we make?
i am not sure on this one, so i vote to let the excess baggage go. someday in the future, if things are meant to work out, they will.
at this point, i wouldn’t waste too much time on folks who just give me grief.
July 30th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Obviously as a S&G fan, I mourn the loss of a relationship that could produce such amazing music, but on a more intellectual level, we all know artists tend to be highly combustible people and the folks that manage to keep it going for ten or twenty years are the exception and certainly not the rule.
Personally, I’m very particular about my friends - my close friends anyway. I don’t trust easily and I tend to be a bit unusual in my expressions and interests, so I don’t accept the ‘end’ of a friendship seamlessly. I also understand that sometimes folks just meander in different psychic directions. Hopefully none of us stop growing and learning, which will inevitably cause us to drift hither and yon, affecting the people in our lives.
All that being said, if I could have the ability, I’d like nothing more than to check in on people who have touched my life, good and bad, on a periodic basis, just to see how they’re doing. My regard for them never completely dissipates.