Careful. We don't want to learn from this.*

"make new friends, but don't forget old,
new is silver, old is gold."

how many times have we come across this quote? several times? and yet, how much attention have we actually paid to it? maybe, for the first time - yes.. it did make sense. after that it became common.. innumerable text msgs, emails, scraps, from new friends, even unknown people, saying the same thing... a few words added / replaced dont make a difference to the essence of the lines. we came across them frequently enough to stop taking pains to even read the second line. it was enough for us to know that we'd read it once. "we know what it says, why bother?" very true...


but then we forgot the idea of Old being Gold.
the philosophy of "why bother?" became much easier to follow....





*( Careful. We don't want to learn from this. - Calvin & Hobbes )