Yesterday, by total and happy coincidence, a longtime friend who lives in BH sent me a WhatsApp message: — Hi LuĂs, how are you? he wrote. This question took me off the ground, not least because he only communicated with me through stickers. I, not knowing how to respond, let my imagination fly over his linguistic coldness and ventured: — I'm fine and you?
After ten minutes of total silence, without any emojis, he texted me again. He wrote: — Friend, today I woke up feeling homesick. this is good or bad? "It depends," I replied immediately.
After a sepulchral silence, he replied: — I'll send you the lyrics of the song I'm listening to right now. It was what I imagined. He sent me the lyrics of the song “Canção da América”, by Milton Nascimento.
"What a fantastic artist this little boy from Minas is," I told him. He: — Don't forget: “A friend is something to keep under seven keys in the heart. So spoke the song that I heard in America, but whoever sang it wept when he saw his friend go.”
Me: — Where are the other stanzas of the song? He: — I'll send you another day. My Internet is very slow. Me: — All right. The other day we talked more. He: — First, however, I would like you to know that you are my best friend — he told me. - I? - Yes, you! — It's just that today it's very difficult to have a real friend. “Yes, I know, but you are, yes, my best friend. Me: — Why do you say that? He: — Because it was with you, dear friend, that I refused human pettiness and their whippings.
“You're my brother, you know that! - I told him. He, with tearful emojis, replied: — The value of our friendship is so true that it made me the happiest creature in the world, fair and righteous. - Why you say that? “Because you were the only one who never stopped talking to me when I revealed to my friends that I was gay.
He sends a bunch of crying emojis. “Everyone has abandoned me except you,” he laments. “I didn't do anything much, I just welcomed you into my house. 'And you think that's not all?' It was your family that made me see that I wouldn't fit into another ruler. If today I know who I am, what I want, my size, no more, no less, I owe it to your advice, to your family, to our friendship.
Now I was the one with tears in my eyes. Even so, I managed to answer him: — What I find most beautiful in human beings is friendship. The Bible goes so far as to say, "Whoever has found a friend has found treasure." "And I, diversity," he replied. — Yes, I agree with you. There is no true friendship if the person does not respect the other as he is - I answered him.
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Again my friend sending a bunch of gratitude emojis and said to me: - I want you to know that, even from afar, you are always present in my prayers and in my readings. I read your articles every week.
I, not knowing what to say to him, just copied and pasted his third message: — “A friend is something to keep under seven keys in the heart. So spoke the song that I heard in America, but whoever sang it cried when he saw his friend go” — don't forget.
He: — Never! Me: — Our friendship is eternal. He: — I think this song should be called “Canção do Amigo”. Me: — Since the author is also from there, you could look him up and suggest that title for him. Him: — hahahahahahaha. Me: — What happened? Did I say something stupid? Three minutes later… He was already offline. Me: — Until any day. As he was still offline, I deleted that last message.
