More specifically: to graduate. Just like in life, we focus more on academic matters that we forgot the people that gave us the real meaning of it. The real life lessons and the experience, most of the times, it takes a great tragedy to understand what’s important. Simon also uses stones to remind him of a specific “memory”. We usually say that “Peoples change, memories don’t.” admit the fact that when you try to forget the person, their memory will somehow fade also, and in order to remember those again is to see that person or see something that really reminds that person to you. It’s about reminiscing memories just like what Simons’ stone
More specifically: to graduate. Just like in life, we focus more on academic matters that we forgot the people that gave us the real meaning of it. The real life lessons and the experience, most of the times, it takes a great tragedy to understand what’s important. Simon also uses stones to remind him of a specific “memory”. We usually say that “Peoples change, memories don’t.” admit the fact that when you try to forget the person, their memory will somehow fade also, and in order to remember those again is to see that person or see something that really reminds that person to you. It’s about reminiscing memories just like what Simons’ stone