Sometimes All We Need Is To Know We're Not Alone

 

The following is a lyric from a French song that has been in my head all day and which I have here translated into English:

Au pire on rira ensemble on mangera du kraft dinner, c'est tout ce qu'on a de besoin.

At worst we laugh together we eat Kraft Dinner, that's all we needed.

As this lyric went round and round inside my head it made me think of a very random short story that I wrote when I was fourteen. I have since lost the story, but it was so strongly in my head today that I re-wrote a bit of it.

Do you remember the summer you were afraid of the sun. We never knew why, but one day you just refused to go outside or even anywhere close to the windows. He tried so hard to reason with you, he always thought logic was the best tool. He gave you some powerful sunscreen, he thought that would be enough but it wasn’t. She was the one who said she wouldn’t leave you. If you wanted to spend the whole summer in the basement with the blinds down, that was ok, she would stay down there with you. In the end we brought the beach to you. I remember roasting marshmallows over candles and playing guitar in the dark of your basement. It was just that one summer that you were so afraid. The next year you were ok and we went camping together and those are good memories, but the summer we spent hiding from the sun together will always be one of my favourites.  

I think the reason the Kraft Dinner song by Lisa Leblanc makes me think of this story is because they are both about times when you just don’t know what to do for another person, but at the very least you can just be together and that can sometimes be enough.