Catching Up

Sometimes you burn the days off one by one, and then the weeks and months. And then you realise you have submerged the promises of coffee and the meetings with old friends beneath the urgent tide of instantly required responses to other things. They are not yet drowned, but they are whelmed. They have been placed on the back-burner so long that the burner has gone out and what was hot is now old and cold.

Friendships should not be tacitly abused that way. I will therefore plan for more nasi lemak occasions, more kopi tiam sessions with old friends. The idea of the café is an ancient one, but a good one. And perhaps I shall salvage more from wrack and wreck, and be a better friend.