reflection dejection connection confection

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

title: Looking Back At Me
involves: 29. and 29. Or the other way around.
rating: G[ee, I didn't know I could write one!]
disclaimer/notes: Um, it's basically non-fiction. Sorry. Not pretending to literary merit, either. Fictionalysis is for fun, not for profit. I miss Ty Conklin so much Fleury may be giving me a run for my money.
summary: The mirror's showing me someone else's face.


Someone who was never drafted and someone who was the first pick in one of the best drafts in years.

Someone who's a franchise goalie and someone who was basically a punchline.

Someone who played in the NHL at 18 and someone who wasn't signed by an NHL team before turning 25.

Someone who graduated from four years of college and someone who never even came close to enrolling.

Someone who's married with an ever-growing family and someone who's had a girlfriend for longer than that.

Someone who's Canadian and someone who's American.

Someone who's getting $35 million over the next seven years and someone who'll be lucky with four or five contracts over that time and not six or seven different places.

Someone whose playoffs had three shutouts on the way to the Final and someone whose playoffs are six minutes of infamy.

Someone who didn't speak English till they were 16 that's still better than someone's French.

Someone who grew up on one coast and someone who grew up practically a continent away.

Someone who went to play in Communist Russia while someone was still a toddler.

Someone who could make it to the Hall of Fame and someone who will be a historical footnote, somewhere.

We know pain, we know embarrassment, and we know coming up short.

But how is it I look at you and feel like you understand everything?

Comments

[a-symphony-in-c.livejournal.com]

Great format. Nicely done :)

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (and for giving me a great chance to break out my new icon!)

[a-symphony-in-c.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA fantastic, that made my day, thanks.

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

I really, really like this. There's just something about the way you wrote it -- so unique -- that just works.

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

aw, shucks, thanks. it's funny that you'd say 'unique' when 98% of it is quite literally prosaic, but maybe it's the same weird je ne sais quoi that takes two guys from opposite ends of just about everything - and against just about any and all logic - makes them such stupidly good friends.

[tinydancermags.livejournal.com]

This was so lovely. They are such opposites, but somehow, they compliment each other so well. Goalie love wins everything. Wonderful! :)

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

mmm, yeah, I'm not sure if I'll ever get an answer to my question! :)
- maybe the trick is they somehow really are pretty similar - in spite of the vastly differing circumstances.

goalie love wins *almost* everything. :/ but it goes an awfully long way. and is such a beautiful thing to see at work. glad you enjoyed!

[fairygirl03.livejournal.com]

I think these two, are my new favorite pairings. I love Conks so much and hate that he's a Wing and love Flower like nothing else. *sigh* lovely. This was really amazing... I really liked it :)

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

If I can't have Conks back, I'm gonna make as many people as emo as I can! ^_^ Who knew facts were entertaining?

[jess-the1.livejournal.com]

I love how you laied out all their difference's but at the end it doesn't matter.

Awasome job.

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

amor vincit omnia. I'm glad you liked it.

[guitargirl39.livejournal.com]

Love love love. I adore the inside of Ty Conklin's brain. In both of the pairings for him I've liked it's kind of like this - for some reason he seems to work best with MUCH younger, talented Frenchmen. Odd couples are the best kind. <33

[eggybread.livejournal.com]

What makes you think it's only Conks's brain? :D
(I'm still digging your icon.)