Dear my friends,

we have recently celebrated my 21st birthday together. It was a very meaningful day for me, being surrounded by all of you. We have known each other for a shockingly long amount of time. which makes our friendship all the more special. We lived through the worst of our teenage years together and I look forward to growing old with each and every one of you. Some of us have known each other since birth, some of since grade one and some of us from year seven, regardless of that time, I can say that I know you all very well and vice versa. You guys teased me as usual for being the oldest and that made me wonder how we would be as elderly people. It is hard for us to look at old people and imagine that they were once young. I look at my grandmother and see her as she is now, seventy years old, a little bit grumpy and the most loving person and i cant imagine her as a teenager. Its hard to imagine ourselves at that age, where we slowly revert back to being kids and act childish. I am happy knowing i will age with all of you, because even if we dont age gracefully and life does not go to plan, I will be happy remembering all of our fun and crazy times. The time we found a trolley and aysh almost crashed into the wall while i was in it, or the time we stuck toilet signs on the principals door…

It scares me to think of how i would die and i understand now why my grandmother prays to die quickly. She has seen her family members and closest friends die from cancer, heart attacks… and her dream is to die peacefully, without being a burden to anyone else.

so to my dear friends, no matter how ill, senile or old you become, lets have our crazy pizza feasts and binge watch old lady shows together…

from your dear friend

ceyda

 

I was inspired to write this letter by a south korean tv drama, ‘Dear my friends’. The story focuses on a group of elderly friends and their lives, as their time on this earth draws to an end. The daughter of one of the friends decides to write about the very interesting lives of this group of friends. The drama very realistically depicts the struggles of the characters, showing how they have grown and at times how they have not changed. They have reunions and each and every time someone is ill or passes away, which is both striking and a reality at their age. Watching the show made me think about my own friends and I had the urge to shelter them from the hardships in life, something i am not capable of doing. Through this show, I also learned of the influences my friends have had on my life. At times, your friends are closer to you then your family and i wondered why i never wrote about my friends. I tend to see a lot of negative in the world but if i can focus on my friends, I know that i can create meaningful videos/projects. ‘Dear my friends’ resonated with me because of the story, even though it was shot beautifully, the cinematography helped tell the amazing story but the show would be nothing without the touching storylines and characters.

I hope that through this studio, I can learn how to create meaningful content, through both video production and story.