My Friendship Bracelet
Posted by Robin Hemley on April 6, 2009 11:10 AM
I'm not quite sure why I'm still wearing the friendship bracelet that my 18-year old counselor Snoopy gave me nearly three years ago while I was a camper at Camp Echo for a week. But it's undeniably there and I haven't taken it off for anything since it was put on. It's kind of gray now rather than white, but the letters in blue still state quite clearly, CAMP ECHO. Okay, so letting go is something I definitely have issues with. Most of the time, I don't think people notice it on my wrist or they think it's some kind of solidarity band, worn for a cause. And when they do ask out right, "What IS that?" I kind of hide it, but I tell them, "It's my friendship bracelet." Of course, I add that I am going to take it off just as soon as Do Over is published, but I neglect to say that I HAD planned to remove it when I completed all my do over's, and that was in 2007. Sometimes I tighten it when it's loose, but most of the time I don't even notice it anymore.
I will remove it, right? But when? After the book is finally in my hands? Maybe that will be too soon. If I remove it too soon, maybe the next day sales will plummet.
This is one of the reasons I don't play bingo or gamble. I would need to buy too many good luck charms. At least voices don't tell me to do things . . . often.
But that's the thing about books and everything else. The control we have, finally, is minimal. Still, it's nice to have a backup just in case.
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