Zap Oracle Card # - © Jonathan Zap
text © Jonathan Zap
In the final scene of the heart-centered movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, an old woman is reflecting back on a long and fulfilled life and sharing her wisdom with a middle-aged woman.
“You reminded me about what the most important thing in life is. You know what I think it is?”
“No, ma’am.”
“Friends, best friends.”
Consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30:
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”