the "close ones"

"the close ones" look further than we think

(things in the looking glass look further then they seem)

yet we can tell "the far-flung ones" our truthful thoughts:

• "the close ones" know us too much (albeit not fully)
• "the further ones" may know what we look like, what to call us
  • but they don't truly know our "wavelength"
• "the far-flung ones" (on the other hand) have no slant about us
  • they take our words as words and not as stocks
    • seeing us on a whim as "high-worth" or "low-worth"
  • they can thus make meaning with those words more readily
  • of course, we cannot kid ourselves there:
    • they will quickly know us too much

"the furthest ones" can weirdly give us more closeness:

more and more "far-flung ones" have come into our lives

(most alike those after the hundred years flipped)

while the "close ones" have faded away from us:

• old folk groups thought of "fading away" as a big deal
• now it has become more common and even wanted

talking as a way to "get close" trended into a goal without legwork

we no longer need it, as we knew what its lack thereof meant