It Adds Up
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Sophia: Time has a taste, doesn’t it? Each moment a sip of what was once poured long ago. The world is what it is because it carries the flavor of what it has been.
Hoyle: Indeed, the cosmos is no sudden brew. Every atom remembers its origin. The stars whisper their history into our bones — a chain of causes too intricate to untangle, yet too elegant to ignore.
Wiesel: And so it is with friendship. It, too, is the result of what came before — gestures, laughter, shared silences. Unlike love, which can burn too hot and consume itself, friendship endures by blending — not overpowering.
Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.
— Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
Sophia: Ah, blending — like good tea or aged wine. Friendship matures through time, steeped in the quiet recognition of another soul. It’s not about possession but participation.
Hoyle: That’s the true cosmic principle. Nothing stands alone; everything is connected through what preceded it. Even the universe is a shared story — an ongoing conversation between matter and meaning.
Wiesel: Then friendship is our human echo of that cosmic dialogue. To share is to acknowledge the other as part of oneself, without collapsing the distance that keeps both alive.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
— Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
Sophia: Beautifully said. Perhaps wisdom, too, is just a form of friendship — a companionship with time, with thought, with those who came before.
Hoyle: So when we sip — be it tea, wine, or knowledge — we are tasting the past, carried forward through the hands of others.
Wiesel: And gratitude is the aftertaste — the reminder that nothing worth sharing ever begins or ends with oneself.
Sophia: Have a sip, then. Not to forget, but to remember — to join in the continuity of all things.
Hoyle: A toast, then — to the way things are, because of the way they were.
Wiesel: And to friendship — the finest vessel wisdom ever drinks from.
Sophia: Cheers… or should I say — have a planksip.
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