Necklace

The clouds of yesterday part to the sun of today.

I came across a gold necklace that someone gave me for Christmas thirty three years ago.  I used to wear it all the time.  I thought I would always wear it.  It is thin and nicely molded and thought it would never go out of fashion.  But over time, it seemed to not be "me" anymore and I stopped wearing it.  That might also be because I haven't seen or heard from the person who gave it to me in at least seventeen years.  It was realtionship that was, I thought, like a familial one...but even family ties can be broken.

I put it on today and wore it to church.  I didn't think much about it and when I came home, when I changed my shirt, I took it off and laid it on the shelf near where I had found it.  It is reimder of a time long ago and a relationship that did not survive all the changed and growth spurts that are called living or life.  

It is a sourvenir of who I was back then.  I take it out every now and then and remember.  I think about the person to who gave it to me, and I feel a twinge of sadness, but no regrets now.  Some relationships last forever and are made of gold.  Some appear golden, but are just fool's gold.  

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