Matthew Perry ANISINA...

     Friends dizisi bir çoğumuzun hayatında yer edinmiş, bizi günün stresinden uzaklaştırıp 2000’lerin başına sürükleyen ama günümüzde geçiyormuş hissini vermeyi ihmal etmeyen arkadaşlıklarıyla ünlü, çok sevilen ve asla eskimeyen bir dizi. Ben arkadaşlık olarak tabir ediyorum ama Matthew Perry’e Instagramdan veda eden arkadaşları bundan aile olarak bahsediyor. Matthew’ın ölümü ve ardında bıraktığı bunca kahkaha beni bu yazıyı yazmaya itti.

     Yazıma başlamadan referans olması adına Friends ekibindeki oyuncuların veda yazılarını okumaya karar verdim ve bu kahkahanın aslında ne kadar büyük bir etkisinin olduğuna oyuncuların yazılarında bir kere daha şahit oldum. Bu kadar güzel anılmak diye düşündüm sonra… Bu kadar güzel anılmak, ne kadar güzel…

Jennifer Aniston

''…Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep. And we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn't hear the 'laugh' he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard…''

Courteney Cox

''I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty and I miss you every day.

When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share…''

David Schwimmer

''Matty,

Thank you for ten incredible years of laughter and creativity.

I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery. You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes.

And you had heart. Which you were generous with, and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers…''

Lisa Kudrow

''…Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY.

Thank you for your open heart in a six way relationship that required compromise. And a lot of "talking."

Thank you for showing up at work when you weren't well and then, being completely brilliant.

Thank you for the best 10 years a person gets to have.

Thank you for trusting me.

Thank you for all I learned about GRACE and LOVE through knowing you.

Thank you for the time I got to have with you, Matthew.''

Matt LeBlanc

''Matthew,

It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life.

It was an honor to share the stage with you and to call you my friend. I will always smile when I think of you and I'll never forget you. Never.

Spread your wings and fly brother you're finally free…''