In Our Words Canadians Reading Together

Feeling the sun’s rays on her face as she walks towards her small red sports car, she decides to take a couple of hours to herself before going to the office. As she sits in her car she takes out her sleek little cell phone and calls her company to tell them she won’t be there for the next couple of hours. She decides to go to a park.

She’s driving along, not noticing that she has already passed one park. She’s just enjoying the warm morning breeze blowing through her hair, when she sees a park. She pulls over to the side of the road, parks her car and gets out. She looks around and wonders which path to take, then starts walking straight ahead.

She walks for a short distance when she realizes that walking in high-heeled shoes is not so comfortable, so she starts looking for a park bench to sit on. She’s just not ready to start her workday yet. Just a few steps ahead she sees a bench with someone sitting there: a young lady dressed in a worn-out Tshirt and shorts, with her eyes gently closed. She was just about to ask if she could sit there, when she noticed that the young lady looked very familiar.

As she looked down towards the young lady, the words left her lips without thinking. “Carman? Is that you?” Carman very slowly opened her eyes, looking upward, taking what seemed forever to recognize the person standing in front of her. With a very surprised look on her face, she says, “Beth? Is that you? Where did you come from?”

Beth sits down quickly beside Carman, so happy to have run into each other, after coming from the same little town, growing up just down the street from each other, going to the same school, and parting after high school. Beth moved to the city to further her education and become an interior decorator and now own her own company. Carman became a bank manager in a small town, where she has just gotten out of a relationship with someone. They had just grown apart from each other and she needed to start over, so she decided to transfer to the city.

After Carman tells Beth about her life after high school, and Beth tells Carman about her life, they both know they made some right choices in life.

They were so glad to have found each other on that beautiful warm spring morning, to rekindle their long-lost friendship.