Talking to part of a friend - by Henrik Karlsson

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Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past

The Empty Bottle, Théodule Ribot, ca 1876-1881 Last summer, two friends from high school visited the island where I live. When the second one arrived, we scaled the cliffs down to the sea where I sometimes find the carcasses of sheep that have fallen to their death. We sat late into the night talking. When you meet old friends, there is sometimes a tendency to return to past versions of yourself, revisiting stale talking points, and reminiscing—and neither I nor my friends are particularly interested in that for more than an hour. This restlessness with the old gives our relationship the…

Talking to part of a friend - by Henrik Karlsson

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