for good
Friends are very important to a person's life. I think maybe even more than having a true love, because the fact that love goes deeper and more intense than friendship is greater potential for hurt.
In university you do a lot more of choosing who to be friends with. Maybe it was MGS. But once we found friends, we usually remained friends, established our clique, and got closer within that. The options to get new friends was technically closed until the next year, or limited to very close friends of very close friends. It seems very different in uni - there are new cliques forming all the time -don't make the mistake of thinking there are no cliques at all, cause it's undeniably tough for some groups of friends to blend well.
So, in university, friendship really is a leap. At least for me. From stranger to acquaintance. To friend to close friend.
Becoming a friend is opening your heart and sharing a chunk of it with someone else, piece by piece, leaking from one heart to the other sometimes. Okay kinda disturbing imagery. :) But it's really like that!
And I've been meaning to post this song for a really long time, and maybe I have in some form or another but I can't remember or be bothered to check. Anyway listen to it if you haven't already. +_+
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"For Good" from the Musical Wicked - Funny bloopers R us
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For Good
(Glinda):
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
(Glinda):
Because I knew you
(Both):
I have been changed for good
(Elphaba):
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
(Glinda):
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
(Both):
And none of it seems to matter anymore
(Glinda):
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
(Elphaba):
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
(Both):
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
(Glinda):
And because I knew you...
(Elphaba):
Because I knew you...
(Both):
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
In university you do a lot more of choosing who to be friends with. Maybe it was MGS. But once we found friends, we usually remained friends, established our clique, and got closer within that. The options to get new friends was technically closed until the next year, or limited to very close friends of very close friends. It seems very different in uni - there are new cliques forming all the time -don't make the mistake of thinking there are no cliques at all, cause it's undeniably tough for some groups of friends to blend well.
So, in university, friendship really is a leap. At least for me. From stranger to acquaintance. To friend to close friend.
Becoming a friend is opening your heart and sharing a chunk of it with someone else, piece by piece, leaking from one heart to the other sometimes. Okay kinda disturbing imagery. :) But it's really like that!
And I've been meaning to post this song for a really long time, and maybe I have in some form or another but I can't remember or be bothered to check. Anyway listen to it if you haven't already. +_+
***
"For Good" from the Musical Wicked - Funny bloopers R us
***
For Good
(Glinda):
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
(Glinda):
Because I knew you
(Both):
I have been changed for good
(Elphaba):
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
(Glinda):
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
(Both):
And none of it seems to matter anymore
(Glinda):
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
(Elphaba):
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
(Both):
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
(Glinda):
And because I knew you...
(Elphaba):
Because I knew you...
(Both):
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
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