1. Cindy is 18 years old. Cindy's parents and her 23-year old brother Rich are going
away for the weekend. Renee, Cindy's best friend, is pressuring her to throw a
huge
Saturday night party for all their friends since no one will be home. Renee even
asked Rich if he could pick up alcoholic beverages for them. Rich brought back
two kegs of beer, a case of wine coolers, a bottle of vodka, and a few bottles of
wine, which he hid in the basement. Renee also spread the word around school
for everyone to show up. Cindy now has over $200 worth of alcohol in the
basement, an empty house for the weekend, and fifteen friends expected. What
should she do?
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Answer:
About eight years ago, I went to dinner with a dear friend I had known for more than 40 years. It would be the last time we would see each other and by the end of that evening I was deeply shaken. But more lasting and more unsettling than this has been the feeling of loss without his friendship. It was a sudden ending but it was also an ending that lasted for me well beyond that evening. I have worried since then at what kind of friend I am to my friends, and why a friendship can suddenly self-destruct while others can so unexpectedly bloom.
My friend and I were used to going to dinner together, though it had become an increasingly tricky matter for us. We had been seeing each other more infrequently, and our conversations had been tending towards repetition. I still enjoyed his passion for talk, his willingness to be puzzled by life’s events, our comically growing list of minor ailments as we entered our sixties, and the old stories he fell back on — usually stories of his minor triumphs, such as the time his car burst into fire, was declared a write-off by insurance, and ended in an auction house where he bought it back with part of the insurance payout and only minor repairs to be made. There were stories of his time as a barman in one of Melbourne’s roughest pubs. I suppose in a lot of long-lasting friendships it is these repeated stories of the past that can fill the present so richly.
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