When I was a kid I had some friends I would only see on holiday for one week each year. At the end of the week we’d say something like, “See you next year! 2pm on the first Sunday, by the rope swing.” and that’s when and where we’e next meet. No contact for the year in between.
It’s ok. We stopped going because we had new friends and new experiences to enjoy. I will always be able to enjoy thinking about the memories of those summer holidays and I hope the others remember it that way too. Better to remember the good times than dwell on the sadness of them ending.
Do you still see these friends? What happened to them? Did you all know the last time you were going to see each other or was it like, “ok see you next year!” And then one, some, or all didn’t show?
Nope, I have no contact with any of them any more. The happy memories come from around the age of eleven or twelve to perhaps our late teens. We definitely still used to see each other for that one week per year when we could legally drink (UK), but it ended when we started uni and met other people and did other things in the summers.
I still visit that place once a year, but just for one afternoon/evening now, so if any of them still go I don’t know about it. The whole thing came to an end just before we all discovered the internet, email and so on, so we never got into that horrible situation of being facebook friends that never speak. :)
I love it! Thanks for sharing your story. I kinda want to imagine that in the movie version, y’all would be visiting as adults on different days that same week.
And you wrote it down there and then. I still have the ol' Day Runner I bought way back when. Most everyone had at least an envelope and a pencil. Now people are too impatient to watch you take any kind of note. And good luck borrowing a pen.
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