I have always noticed the pattern of threes in my life and how it’s perfectly concise and perfectly contained. When listing something off, two seems too little and four seems to far, but three is just right. When I was younger, I saw odd numbers as a group of couples and one lonely number, but now I see them as something not as wasteful. Not everything has to be whole and even, or you can create your own sense of wholeness— As Lambeth says, “A kind of wholeness through asymmetry and time, the tension between impermanence and ongoingness.”
Since the beginning of high school, I have had a friend group composed of three core members that have never shifted or wavered or left since that year. However, we have had more joined a by one other friend—they have always shifted. They seem to leave every few years—changing or leaving. But, we three never leave. We are balanced and ongoing–no matter who decides to join us and who decides to leave us.
E367: Writing and Diversity 