Four Seasons

I am reading this book by Alan Alda entitled Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. It is an interesting book. It includes many of the speeches Alan Alda has made over the years to a variety of groups. Plus since the book I borrowed was from the Large Print section, it is also easy reading for the eyes. (Gosh, I'm getting old.)

This is what he wrote about the movie The Four Seasons which I found interesting: Finally, I saw that this was a story of the four seasons of friendship: spring, where everyone is fresh and attractive and new to one another; summer, where the glare of the sun begins to show everyone's blemishes; autumn, where the fig leaves finally fall and you see who they really are; and the winter of friendship, where you either drop them and start all over again with another springtime set of friends or take them as they are and huddle against the cold winds of aging.

This process of going through seasons is true for many things -- friendships, as Alan Alda had written, as well as life. I guess what is important is that we go through each season as they come, learn as much as we can from them and enjoy the journey while we are there.

(When I think of Alan Alda, I cannot help think of LondonEye. I am not sure why. I was certainly a TV addict and M*A*S*H was definitely one of the series we watched together when we were kids. I think LondonEye loved Hawkeye Pierce more than I did which is why she comes to mind. Yes, LondonEye was definitely my TV partner-in-crime. Those were the days.)