These past few weeks have felt like my life in the 70’s…
Lots of wandering about with my best friend.
No where to get to; nowhere to go… No real urgency or rush
An enjoyment of being.
With a true friend… My ease in self mirrored back there .
I met Wends in nursery school – we were four years old – and as the years went by and we were ‘let out’ alone, we started wandering about the village, back and forth to one another’s homes.
Spending some time together in one house – and then back again to the other – stopping to sit on the bench that encircled the huge old chestnut tree in the middle of the village.
Talking and wandering, just being together – completely happy in one another’s company… Sufficient unto each other… And then back we would wander to the home of the other..
Hours spent chatting in our bedrooms, or just quietly lying about reading books…
Painting and drawing – writing stories…
Or planning our lives…
Envisioning what they would look like…
(nb, Wends life has turned out pretty much as she dreamed into being at age eight years – mine nothing like!!)
And as the years went by we simply wandered further afield, caught buses and trains to meander about in other towns – supposedly on shopping trips that were in reality extensions of an opportunity to talk and just be together…
I learnt to drive the moment I was seventeen – and then we travelled even greater distances; down to Bude for a week once; where we did the same thing…
Wandered about the town, the beach; walking and talking and just being together…
And now, these past few weeks, Anadi and I are doing the same…
When we’re not working – we wander about.
Into the park, along the river; up the Kings road…
Walking and talking, just being together.
There is no need for entertainment of any sort…
It reminds me of the past….
That is existing now; there isn’t any difference to the essence of us all.
Without any distractions we can know our self; enjoy our self.
Be our own true friend to our self… With another mirroring this back
Or alone
Wandering about… It’s what we’re all doing.
Experiencing a life.
Nowhere to get to
Nowhere to go
Being
Here
Now