I'm going to meet my friend that I haven't seen in almost a decade. Maybe 8 or 9 years to be exact. The last time I saw him I stayed at his house in Akron while I prepared my audition for the Masters program at Ferdonia University. I got accepted, but didn't get a scholarship so I couldn't afford another loan to go back to school, so I didn't go.
I have known him since the first day I visited Akron in the spring 2000 before I graduated high school. I started going to Akron that fall. I stayed in Akron until I graduated in the summer of 2005. We played music together in the Akron percussion department in various bands and ensembles.
He is now overseas playing on a cruise ship out of Shanghai. His ship is now in the Kobe port. He wants to meet and go out for Kobe beef. I'm thrilled to see him again, but Kobe beef? Kobe beef is a mystical meat that has a better reputation around than world than in Japan. I'm not saying it's not good. It's great really. But everyone, here anyway, knows there's just as good and more affordable beef.
Well he's my friend and I want to do right by him. And by that I have to either abide and get Kobe beef or try to convince him to go a different route.
Honestly I'm inclined to just go along with whatever he wants and just remember it may be another 10 years before we see each other again. And when I do, I want to be able to have a laugh about the time we were in Kobe eating overpriced beef than remembering how I was a know it all who took away his only chance to have a once in a life time experience.
Sometimes you have to think ahead and not just in the moment. Sometimes you have to compromise to get what you want later rather than today.
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