Of Silver and Gold

(((Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other is GOLD)))))

It was one unforgettable song we used to sing in Elementary School, in my class when I was in Grade School. I think it was my teacher's favorite song because she always asked us to sing it.

If you watch the TV comedy/drama series YOUNG SHELDON you know how hard to be alone in school especially if you don't have friends. I never seen the pilot of the series. I only happened to watch the episode about young Sheldon Cooper who borrowed a book on "how to make friends" from the library and the book was referred to by the school librarian. In that book there's a self-help guide on how to win friends. Sheldon tried and followed some guidelines and he experimented on his father calling him as "George." He called his mother as a lady. He made friends with older students taller than him but it didn't made any sense at all. Then he told it to his sister who is "smart in her own ways but not exceptionally genius as Sheldon." The sister told him to read the names of those who borrowed the book and find out for himself on how they end up from reading the book. So Sheldon followed the sister's advice and talked to those people turned out to be the school's principal, vice-principal and the rest are "people" who are in the position where they are not supposedly not allowed to make friends because it's conflict of interest. Then he met an asian boy whose interest is about the same as Sheldon pertaining to "scientific endeavours" and finally Sheldon found a friend and right there the mother invited the asian boy to dine with their family. The asian boy was a Vietnamese from a Vietnamese family who suffered the atrocities of war and the rest is a story of depression and hardship. It was a depressing story of refugees in the land of America.

You too can make new friends. You'll have silver. But make sure you keep the gold.