Monday, 8 August 2011

All You Need is Love (1967), The Beatles or Where we learn sometimes we should trust pop songs

I've been lucky enough to spend the past weekend celebrating my friends wedding in the Catskill Mountains. I've reached an age now where I'm often going to weddings, or christenings or children's 1st birthday parties... or well you get the idea. But this wedding was different, the groom was a friend of mine from my very first days at university and a group of us had remained friends for nearly 20 years and though I'm probably too old to talk about best friends I genuinely believe that they are my best friends and remain massively important people in my life. The wedding was a million miles away from the modern wedding experience, no matching seat covers, no 25 menu choices, no Balloon arches just a group of people from around the globe drinking, eating and chatting as if we had all been friends for a million years and during the ceremony where we would have sang a hymn another friend stood up and sung "All You Need is Love" and everyone joined in, and it captured everything I was feeling. It's love that brings people from all around the world to join together, it's love that unites friends and keeps them united for many years and yes sometimes it is all you need.

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