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Friday, November 5, 2010

a look between friends

There’s a scene in The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King where Frodo wakes up from destroying the ring and completing his goal. He was knocked out and hurt badly, but was able to recover. After greeting people whom he departed from earlier, and meeting friends he hadn’t seen in a while, he looked over and saw Sam. Sam was the one who stuck with Frodo through the whole journey. He was there to see his ups and downs, to support him, to care for him, and to ultimately serve him. Frodo was there for Sam in the same ways. They were so connected through this journey and the things they endured that they had this amazing understanding for each other, a love like no other.

Donald Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years talks about a cross-country bike ride he went on with fifteen strangers. He says that when he called his family and friends and talked about the heat or the weather, it was just like a normal conversation, but with his fellow bike riders, it was something more entirely. They understood what hot meant to him, what pain in the legs, sweating, and burning up felt like. They could connect on a level that was unreachable with others. For me, that is one of the most wonderful feelings in the world, to feel that you truly have someone who gets you, who empathizes with you, and to know you are not alone. To have that long pause, that smile and look between friends.

“A look between friends”

Sometimes words just crowd the page.

It’s that feeling that you get when he looks at you,
she looks at you,
it…looks at you with the understanding that means I know
without saying I know
without speaking to you to say, “I really do get it.”

Those eyes gazing into your eyes
and psychic waves of wonderful emotion
transmit from one human to another to silently utter those simple reassuring words:
"You are not alone."
But because of the pain
and how it makes you think,
you feel like you are


Here


when you are actually Surrounded by love,
a love that is so amazing and more beautiful
than words can ever describe.

I would take emotions over words any day.

And when you start to feel it in you,
when you feel that the person you are staring at is the one who
is so very attached to you,
in a way of understood emotion
you start to see that there’s something to this whole silence,
this look
this gaze,
this repeated sound in a phrase
like a repeated reassurance
that they really do get it.

A final mutualism.
Not the kind where compromises are made,
but where compassion is gained.
A true understanding of one another.
A true respect.
A true friendship.
Love at it greatest,
With no interfering words.

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