“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
From Fitzgerald's The
Great Gatsby. Beautiful thing to
say, isn't it? Yes, of course, but not in its context.
It was spoken after
Gatsby's death, by a friend of his. In his life, many people claimed
to be his friends. Many overexploited is generosity and felt no shame
at all about it. They took their advantage of him and gossiped about
him behind his back. Those people were just like parasites around
him.
Then he died, and
nobody seemed to care about what he was truly like, or who he was
truly, or anything about him. It's just so sad. They didn't even
bother to attend his funeral.
Out of context,
however, the quote sounds really good. We have the opportunity to
love people and let them know that we love them only while they are
alive. Let's show our loved ones 'friendship' while we can. We don't
know what will happen tomorrow, and we don't want to regret having
missed an opportunity to truly love somebody.
That's the quote for
this week. Share yours!
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