FRIENDSHIP – TELL THEM NOW

“A friend loves at all times.”

-Proverbs 17:17

Have you ever had the feeling that you ought to pick up the phone and call someone, or drop by for a visit, but then someone interrupted you, or your phone rang?

Charles Hanson Towne knew something of this when he wrote the following poem:

Around the corner I have a friend,

In this city that has no end;

Yet day’s go by, and weeks rush on,

And before I know it a year has gone,

And I never see my old friend’s face,

For life is a swift and terrible race.

He knows I like him just as well

As in the days when I rang his bell

And rang mine.

We were younger then

And now we are busy, tired men:

Tired with playing a foolish game,

Tired with trying to make a name,

“Tomorrow,” I say, “I will call on Jim,”

Just to show that I am thinking of him.

But tomorrow comes – and tomorrow goes,

And the distance between us grows and grows

Around the corner, but miles away..

“Here’s a telegram, Jim died today.”

And that’s what we get, and deserve in the end:

Around the corner, a lost friend.

Your life will be a great deal more cheerful if you take advantage of the opportunity to say, “Thank You,” or “I Love You,” or “I Appreciate what you have done.” Never make the mistake of thinking that he knows, or she knows. Tell him. Tell her.