July 13, 2019
My Dear Friends,
On my recent trip to Los Angeles I met a man who said to me “my friends are all doctors, architects, financiers, professors at prestigious universities and much more important than I am.” To which I replied “ah, yes, I have that problem with my friends too.”
When I imagined my friendships in the early days I imagined two people welded together into some sort of combined existence.
Ten years! Ten years has taught me that the secret of a successful friendship is to have different interests… different, but not entirely different.
Its a funny business friendship;
one sees the whole of the other person. You see even that part that they don’t see themselves and presumably they see that hidden part of you. One ends up knowing more about ones partner than they even know about one selves,
and it can be pretty tough to keep quiet about it.
So you have to come to an accommodation, an arrangement,
a deal if you like, to take the rough with the smooth.
But the extraordinary thing about it is, that down there in the rough, in the long reeds of difficulty and pain, that is where you find the treasure.
So I would like to propose a toast, "To friendship, to the rough and smooth, and to the treasure."
xo M
